Author: Marc D
Date: 07:26:42 07/02/05
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On July 02, 2005 at 09:59:54, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: >On July 02, 2005 at 07:00:27, Marc D wrote: > >>On July 01, 2005 at 10:09:45, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: >> >>>Hello 8x8 and 10x8 chess fans, >>> >>>by the help of chessfriend Hans Eriksson SMIRF now supports a third language >>>(download at [http://de.geocities.com/rsmuenchen/] ). >>> >>>It is recommended to request an all enabling testing key via the supported email >>>link. >>> >>>Reinhard. > >>Hi Reinhard >> >>This is for no doubt the best program for playing several chess variants. >>But how come you could use gothic chess setup in your gui? >>You must have a good friendship with the author :-) > >Hi Marc, > >a) the software to be downloaded is not sold but still beta with a time > limited usability, so nobody is mistreaten, but also GC somehow promoted, >b) having participated last November in Ed Trice's championship legitimizes > me for one year to use the GC setup namely, and I intend to do this again, > if it would also happen this year (as far as I know it would be necessary > to implement a new remote playing protocol Ed has specified for having the > participants play automatically one each other) Smirf will play again there, >c) I still hope to get a working agreement with Ed in time, which seems not > necessarily impossible, >d) if you would have tested SMIRF completely, you would have seen, that there > is a separate license key for GC. In the case of no agreement with Ed, I > simply would not publish such keys within a shareware version, which would > disable the automatic GC setup button, but everything else would work, >e) I have invented Capablanca Random Chess, which is - in combination with those > other 10x8 and 8x8 variants sufficiently attractive. Moreover you could store > any starting array you have set up by hand as PGN and replay it later, if > you want, thus e.g. Corner Chess and a lot of other variants are possible, > too. > >Reinhard. > >PS: Smirf plays traditional chess as well ... Thank you very much for these detailed answers. I'm looking forward to test each beta version thoroughly Marc
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