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Subject: Re: Gandalf 6.0 vs Slowchess 60 games Blitz 5min. 38/16/6

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 11:19:47 11/25/04

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On November 25, 2004 at 11:53:08, Günther Simon wrote:

>>>>He said he used it in the CB GUI and it ran SLOW (his capitalizations, not mine)
>>>> compared to the native GUI. Looks similar to me. Not identical, but similar. He
>>>>did speculate it was a CB GUI issue, but wasn't sure.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>but...
>>>1) you generalized his problems for all GUIs
>>
>>No, I made no statements of any kind. I asked about it, which is quite
>>different.
>>
>>>2) it was already clear that he made a setup error
>>>   due to other posts, before you asked for confirmation
>>>   of his problem
>>
>>He didn't post any results confirming that was the issue, so the question still
>>remained as to whether there might not be performance issue. All he said was
>>that he'd try setting it up differently.
>>
>
>This gets a bit silly by now, as I have already answered that quesion in
>this thread: SlowChess is running fine for much more than a year on different
>peoples machines under various GUIs.
>Of course a lot of people, who are almost only informed about latest commercial
>toys think SlowChess just had arrived...
>You should also know by now that most probs using a chess program happen
>because of user errors, thus speculating about SlowChess' possible
>problems outside its own GUI after one report (in 16 months)
>is a bit weird IMHO.
>If you still don't believe my answer I can't help you.
>
>Guenther

There is nothing to believe. You said Thorsten said nothing like what I
suggested and I said yes he did. Belief has nothing to do with it. I'm glad to
know that SlowChess works fine in all GUIs, but it has nothing to do with my
reply to your comment.

                                          Albert



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