Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 07:24:43 07/05/05
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On July 05, 2005 at 10:15:55, Stan Arts wrote:
>On July 05, 2005 at 09:56:00, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>> It's in my opinion a stupid idea that all chess programs
>> should come with its own GUI. To write a (good) chess
>> program is much and hard work and why should a programmer
>> waste his time with developing an own GUI. There a enough
>> fine GUI's available already.
>> Kurt
>
>
>Hi Kurt,
>
>Personally I think every chessprogram/engine should have an own Gui in the
>basis. Writing a Gui is interesting and never a waste of time. Also as
>a user you can never have too many complete chessprograms to play around
>with. Everyone now doing all these engine-engine tests, makes people forget
>about true/other types of strength of chessprograms. Meaning if your program
>is below 2500 in comp-comp strength, it's useless and no one will even take a
>look at it, even if it has other qualities.
>
>Greetings
>Stan
Hi Stan
I have hundreds of chess programs on my HD but
would surely not be ready to install separate
GUI's for each of them.
Kurt
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