Author: Steve Glanzfeld
Date: 07:56:18 07/05/05
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On July 05, 2005 at 08:41:25, Madhavan wrote: >I don't understand why anyone would reject this idea? Because it does not make sense. Standards and compatibility make sense. There are not too few good GUIs around IMO. Fritz, Shredder Classic, Chessmaster, Arena, Chess Partner (Lokasoft), Chess Assistant... still not enough? Btw. Chessmaster is WinBoard compatible since version 8000. I don't know how long it is since you have discovered computerchess. Maybe 2 month ago :-) I remember prehistoric DOS times, when there was no GUI/engine concept in chess software yet, when there were no standards like PGN, etc. That were primitive times. To play a program against another one, you'd either need 2 computers and would have to transmit every move manually, or on one computer only, you needed to be lucky when trying to run the two chess programs at the same time, and would have to task switch manually after each move... Of course there are many chessplayers who play chess, analyze etc. with their progs, and don't test engines. They just won't show up among computerchess freaks, because they are interested in chess, not in computerchess. I assume their number is much bigger than those of the engine freaks. Steve
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