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

Author: Madhavan

Date: 06:21:03 07/06/05

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On July 06, 2005 at 08:40:06, gerold daniels wrote:

>On July 06, 2005 at 02:18:04, Madhavan wrote:
>
>>On July 05, 2005 at 09:56:00, Kurt Utzinger 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.
>>>>
>>>>It's either of 2 reasons,programmer will obtain less amount or testers do tests
>>>>reporting result and detecting bugs.
>>>>
>>>>player 'd too become a tester,sometimes he gets bored always being engine's
>>>>victim.
>>>>
>>>>I'd like to know if there are anyone who play chess with chessbase and who don't
>>>>test engines?
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>Ironically if you ask someone "do you know Deep Junior"? "Shredder"?
>>>>probable answer is "I don't know,what it it?"
>>>>
>>>>If you ask some CD buyers "Do you know chessmaster"
>>>>most probably the response from them would turn out to be positive
>>>>
>>>>you bet.
>>>>
>>>>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?
>>>
>>>      It's in my opinion a stupid idea that all chess programs
>>>      should come with its own GUI. To write a (good) chess
>>>      program is much and hard work and why should a programmer
>>>      waste his time with developing an own GUI. There a enough
>>>      fine GUI's available already.
>>>      Kurt
>>
>>If you talk about "waste of time developing GUI"thats your point.
>>If you were a programmer and have your own engine,from that point if you also
>>get to program the GUI and sell it off publicly,your program would be more
>>popular.It's about popularity and economy,its not about strength.so far some
>>engine like Ruffian seems very unknown to many people here.why's that?why's it
>>not popular?
>>
>>no GUI?no good company to sponsor or distribute?could be that reason,would'nt
>>you agree?
>
>Ruffian is one of the most popular free programs. look at the diff. tourney
>played. the comm. ruffian is not a lot of improvement than the free program
>as far as how many comm.ruffian pragram has sold i don,t know.

I'm not talking about Ruffian's strength,I'm talking about Ruffian's commercial
popularity,it still is unknown to many chess buyers.


>gerold.



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