Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 17:53:21 02/11/05
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On February 11, 2005 at 18:06:53, Torstein Hall wrote: >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 Yes, to each his own, tastes differ. (*) What I don't like is the sound of Boris so I have added DGT and CA's sound files to the sound folder ( a little bit renaming are needed). But looking a bit behind the scene there is much in plus for Chesspartner. Here are my two top points: 1. It can take advantage of engines made with user controlled tuning etc. so an amateur engine would feel like a nativ engine. Controlling personality, weakening the engine etc. All could be made poping up in a dialogbox like you are used to from Fritz. An example is ProDeo. There are some engines out there that the author have put a lot of work into getting it to be a good sparring partner. All these feature are hidden in a config file but with Chesspartner you can get those feature into light for easy access. 2. It have scripting ability so you can make it do very advanced stuff, only your imagination are the limit. As a sample could be: There was some talk here a week ago about modifing Crafty to be able to give a evaluation in normal terms and not only a score. Well if I would try to do this I would first try to write an evaluator that could return evaluation like you find in Informator: 'bishop pair', 'development advantage', etc. and then let you select your favourite engine do the hard work and only call my evaluator on endpoints in variations to try to explain why the score is +0.56. Else is there anything you would like to change in the 'deep positional analysis' in CB or CA? Just write a script to do what you want. Odd Gunnar (*) I don't know if this is correct saying, it is so much better in Norwegian (smaken er som ...). >> >>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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