Author: Madhavan
Date: 23:06:59 07/05/05
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On July 05, 2005 at 10:56:18, Steve Glanzfeld wrote: >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? My point is:Chess programmer profits more money by releasing the engine with its own GUI plus many features. all GUI's seems very well known than chess engine among many chess enthusiasts. >Btw. Chessmaster is WinBoard compatible since version 8000. Playing with chessmaster is very interesting,especially playing different personality with rating range. >I don't know how long it is since you have discovered computerchess. Maybe 2 >month ago :-) about 1 year i guess. >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. I believe there are many chess players who don't know "engine vs engine" is possible,they merely buy software and play against.there are heck a lot.less engine freaks and testers as you may well notice from this forum. I don't understand one thing that is testers claiming they too can learn simply watching engine play against other engine,thats dumb. I believe playing against computer will increase your playing skills than watching programs play.would you not agree? >Steve
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