Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 09:19:11 07/05/05
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On July 05, 2005 at 12:17:27, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 05, 2005 at 08:41:25, Madhavan wrote: > >>Its better to release a standalone engine with its own GUI,when a programmer >>gives protocol support for engines,his programming economy decreases. > >Utter nonesense. > >>It's either of 2 reasons,programmer will obtain less amount or testers do tests >>reporting result and detecting bugs. > >Utter nonesense. > >>player 'd too become a tester,sometimes he gets bored always being engine's >>victim. > >Almost all tests are engine verses engine. People who get bored getting bashed >by a machine will not suddenly become enthralled because you put a new face on >it. > >>I'd like to know if there are anyone who play chess with chessbase and who don't >>test engines? > >I do. Let me ammend that, I do both. Of course, the programs knock my brains out. Believe it or not, I still enjoy it. >>I happen to know that there are many people out there who dont know what's >>computer chess or that computer program can play with another program by >>protocol.that would be chessmaster buyers. > >I know "what's computer chess" and that a computer can play another program. >I own chessmaster (I have bought many versions). >Therefore, your foundation is false. > >>Ironically if you ask someone "do you know Deep Junior"? "Shredder"? >>probable answer is "I don't know,what it it?" > >Is there a point in that statement somewhere? > >>If you ask some CD buyers "Do you know chessmaster" >>most probably the response from them would turn out to be positive > >Well, you can get ChessMaster at the local Fred Meyers or Circuit City. You >won't find Shredder or Deep Junior there. So the result is entirely >unsurprising. Clearly, the sales of ChessMaster are far more than all the >others put together. > >>you bet. >> >>Do you agree with the idea of releasing chess program that should come with its >>own GUI? > >Do you agree that reinventing the wheel when there are already Ferraris running >up and down the street is a bad idea? > >>so.is vincent planning to exactly do this?or also Bruce?may be. > >Bruce and Vincent have both written their own GUI. > >>having more chess GUI's seems to be interesting,we have enough chess >>engines. > >That's like saying "We have enough money. No need for some more." > >>what do you expect to have?many chess engine,some clones can be >>detected. > >What is the point of the above fragment? > >>I don't understand why anyone would reject this idea? > >Because it is a bad idea. Writing a GUI is much harder than writing a chess >engine (a good one, that is). > >That is why we have 350 chess engines and 35 GUIs. The GUI is ten times as hard >to write. > >I think a far, far better idea than to write new GUIs is to improve existing >ones. > >Jose, Winboard, and Scid are public projects. Any of those would be a good >place to start.
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