Author: ERIQ
Date: 05:57:47 01/07/05
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On January 07, 2005 at 02:43:29, Richard A. Fowell wrote: >On January 07, 2005 at 01:42:15, ERIQ wrote: > >Well, first - others have. > >The King, Ruffian, GnuChess, Deep Sjeng, Crafty, and Fruit run on the Mac. To date hiarcs, cm9000, deep sjeng and ruffian are the only commercial engines available and two of the four are loosely supported at best ie. deep sjeng and ruffian. Yet you make this list seem good ?! Do you think mac and linux people would like to see other big names like: shedder, fritz, junior, and chesstiger? >The King, Ruffian and GNUChess are on the Mac as standalone programs >(Chessmaster 9000, Kasparov Chessmate and Big Bang Chess). > >>I think some programmers are just getting lazy. > >It is more a matter of motivation - given the greater market for PCs than Macs, >there's more reward in putting the code on the PC. ok, but if you already have a product for winblows then what else do you have to do with your time? Most are not making any real impovements to their engines (real=50+ rating points better than their last version) so what better and more productive than porting to other platforms. >Porting a full program (GUI and all) is a big project - when >Chessmaster 9000 was ported to the Mac this year, it took six >months longer than originally announced. > >It is a smaller project to port the engine, but not the GUI, as >a UCI/Winboard engine, and let some other program, such as jose, serve as the >GUI. >That is what HIARCS is doing (per >http://www.sigmachess.com/Hiarcs/sigmahiarcs.html). Yes, I see hiarcs these days making great strides to dominate other platforms (ie. palm, mac) and others should take the hint, there is more that just one os that chessplayers use.
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