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

Author: Vikrant Malvankar

Date: 01:03:29 07/06/05

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On July 06, 2005 at 01:40:31, Robert Hollay wrote:

>On July 05, 2005 at 08:41:25, Madhavan wrote:
>
>>
>>Do you agree with the idea of releasing chess program that should come with its
>>own GUI?
>>so.is vincent planning to exactly do this?or also Bruce?may be.
>>
>>
>>having more chess GUI's seems to be interesting,we have enough chess
>>engines.what do you expect to have?many chess engine,some clones can be
>>detected.
>>
>>I don't understand why anyone would reject this idea?
>
>
> I've read your post twice, but I must admit that I don't understand
>your argumentation entirely, maybe because of my English.
> Still, I think that most people want to get used to one GUI, and want to play
>chess in that GUI with as many engines as possible.
> All GUI's have their own twists, bugs, and learning curve
>(especially if you become older - I suppose :-))
>It can be very time consuming and frustrating to install them separately,
>then learn all the features of each GUI ...
> Do you play chess with your friends sometimes? Are you using different
>chessboards playing each of them?
> I very much appreciate the efforts of programmers who have their own GUI.
>But if one wants to play chess with different engines then one standard GUI
>is a far better solution.
> As for clones, even if you write your own original GUI, you could clone
>other engines in it.
>
>Robert

I think he ie writing from the point of view of author and how they can generate
revenue by selling their engine in isolation from other chess programs.
Bt really i also failed to understand what he meantshis view.



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