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

Author: Madhavan

Date: 02:02:50 07/06/05

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On July 06, 2005 at 04:03:29, Vikrant Malvankar wrote:

>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.

exactly.

>Bt really i also failed to understand what he meantshis view.

see all my posts in this thread.why engine plus GUI gets more profit than an
engine alone.thats it.



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