Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:45:07 01/31/05
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On January 29, 2005 at 06:17:07, Roger Brown wrote: >>Special UCI request for Shredder 9.x or 10: >>A UCI parameter [or command line start-up parameter] to describe the location of >>your wonderful book. So that when I play it under Arena or ChessAssistant or >>Jose or whatever it won't play like a goofball, because it has to use no book >>(or possibly worse) one that I made. >>;-) > > > >Hello Dann, > >I agree fully. > >I believe there is something in the works. > >Later. > >Ps. Knowing your penchant for having the latest and greatest, are you planning >to get them all or will even your desire to get the latest and greatest be >overtaken by the economics of having to make multiple purchases? > >:-) > >Later, again. I only buy what pleases me. I probably will not buy new iterations of Junior, Fritz and some of the others because you have to do everything through the Fritz GUI (which I don't like.) You can't create EPD output and other things which are valuable to me. Same for some of the other oddball ones like MChess (which I should be able to use from ChessAssistant but I can't figure out how to make it work) and ChessGenius (which is all by its lonesome) since I can't really do what I want to with them. But Shredder, Chess Tiger and others I will get new instances of when they arrive, along with any really strong UCI engines. Patriot and Ktulu are not strong enough to make me pull the purchase trigger, but if they should gain some steam I would probably buy those too. I have bought Ruffian, DeepSjeng and Rebel UCI. First of all, I like the authors, and second, I want to support efforts like those. And those three are pretty strong (about the level of pro engines). ChessMaster also is a bit annoying because I don't want to put cracks against the binary, even though I legally own it, and I don't want to be constantly looking up OPK numbers. So I may have bought my last version of CM. I think Hiarcs may have UCI or Winboard versions and so I will buy those, especially since Mr. Uniacke was an early supporter of the CAP project. I buy the Lokasoft tools because I find that I can use them in other GUIs without too much problem. Stuff that I cannot get at ICD Your Move Chess and Games I get at either Lokasoft or at ChessAssistant.
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