Author: Stan Arts
Date: 08:21:30 07/05/05
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>>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 Then why have the programs? Most are of amateur programmers. It's a nice bonus if someone bothered to make a propper computergame (chess is a game..) out of his/her program. For the rest, there are a zillion superstrong chessprograms already, so for most it's pretty useless to try to add the zillionth-and-one'th. (atleast as much of a waste of time as writing a complete program around your engine. Both are a nice hobby.) For the rest, most people have barely heard of chess, they certainly haven't heard of Winboard or Arena. Try explaining that when they want to give a chessprogram a try. Greetings Stan
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