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Subject: Re: Shredder 9 UCI - engine only - why not to buy?

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 15:06:53 02/11/05

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On February 11, 2005 at 05:28:04, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote:

>On February 11, 2005 at 04:59:04, Franz Hagra wrote:
>
>>I don't need the GUI, because I am sure, that I would not use it.
>>
>>Why is there no possibibity to buy only the 9 UCI engine?
>>
>>Hagra
>
>I can't answer your question but it doesn't seems unfair if some of these
>engines (Shredder, Gandalf etc.) had a package that could be sold as an addon to
>Chess Assistant and/or Chess Academy etc. They work very well as analysis engine
>in such programs. My guess is that it would extend their sales since it is
>different people that surfe those sites.
>
>With this said, Lokasoft do sell new products that use the same gui to the price
>of an engine if you first have bought the gui (with or without an engine
>package). I bought the standalone gui ages ago (*) and can still add engines
>(upgrade) to it.

The only problem I have with the Lokasoft Gui is the looks. CB is so much more
pleasant to the eye. And besides, I have got used to it.

Torstein
>
>Maybe Shredder Classic (**) will extend the same way as ChessPartner, you
>allready have one addon (S9) to the classic engine.
>
>Odd Gunnar
>(*) My opinium: best wb-gui that exist.
>(**) My opinium: best uci-gui that exist.



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