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Subject: Re: For those interested in: A) Chess Tal B) New engines

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 09:16:00 05/31/05

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On May 31, 2005 at 11:48:31, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>I downloaded the other program but the demo -one hour duration- does not offer
>everything, the stronger player of the selection being a 1300 something. So you
>cannot have an idea of how good -or bad- the engine is. The gui is somewhat
>oiginal, showing a room with the table and the board, but nothing sooo superb as
>to fall in knees.
>I think the best option for everybody here is to get the CSTAL resurrection
>offered by this company. I bet they enhanced the gui, already good, so it could
>be, for a very accesible price, a very good pruchase.
>Fdo

but you maybe forget that there WAS a
free version (for programmers). this was CSTal 2.50

it had the 2.03 GUI together with some new stuff
(edit styling etc.) and CSTAL as engine.

I have to look it up but hadn't it even access to compressed nalimov this time ?
i think 2.03 had no compressed nalimov, only normal.

but whatever.

this was maybe not known enough.

i emailed with rollandson.
i am also very sceptical that the engine of his GO-Alike program is strong.
but - who knows.

if we do not buy, nobody will tell us :-))



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