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Subject: Re: Commercial program shouldn't suppport any engine protocols

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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