Author: Arturo Ochoa
Date: 02:50:13 08/20/05
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On August 20, 2005 at 03:35:43, Thomas Mayer wrote: >Hi Arturo, > >On August 19, 2005 at 20:49:56, Arturo Ochoa wrote: > >>On August 19, 2005 at 20:36:45, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On August 19, 2005 at 19:50:08, Richard Pijl wrote: >>> >>>>On August 19, 2005 at 15:43:01, Thomas Lagershausen wrote: >>>> >>>>>On August 19, 2005 at 15:26:55, A. Cozzie wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>Here I screwed my book creator, because the horrible, horrible Fritz interface >>>>>>resets the book options every time you touch the mouse, and played with >>>>>>incorrect options. But somehow Zappa managed to slip into the win anyway; >>>>>>perhaps it was a bit lucky. >>>>>> >>>>>>anthony >>>>> >>>>>Never play with the cb-gui. It had cost a lot of programs points in the history >>>>>of wccc. >>>>> >>>>>I hope Zappa 2.0 is still uci and can be used in Arena. >>>>> >>>>>TL >>>> >>>>Zappa's book requires the CB-GUI >>>>Richard. >>> >>>I think that it is unfair to use books that require the CB-GUI >>>If I understand correctly it means that the GUI choose the book moves and not >>>the engine so the author is using something external program to help him to >>>select moves. >>> >>>I think that the engine needs to choose all the moves(otherwise the playing >>>thing is not original work of the author and the authors of the chessbase gui >>>should be mentioned as part of the team). >>> >>>Uri >> >>Uri Blass, the king of the absurd arguments. > >in this case I think there is nothing absurd in his arguments. He may have >expressed it not that clever, but you may take a look on what Bob has written >about that topic. > It is as absurd as you support his arguments. >IMO Bob is fully right, sharing active GUI's and there book tools is not >something we should support. But well, as long the ICGA does not care about >that, there is not much we can do against it. You have asnwered the point. There is no rule that forbids the use of a gui. > >The strangest thing to me was once Vincent in Paderborn. First he did play the >opening moves with the ChessBase GUI and then switches to his own GUI and play >with that the rest of the game. This was in Paderborn 2005 - and as this tourney I was not the Book Responsible by that time. It was Erdogan. Erdogan´s Book is in the ChessBase format. >has a special atmosphere I would never complain -> but for sure I wouldn't have >accepted this in WCCC. And that when I know that especially Vincent is one of >those which want to see the engine playing all moves and not some sort of GUI. >(By the way, when I read what Bob wrote this seems to be one point where Bob and Vincent's requested my help 3 weeks ago. He is using a native book for Diep. What is your point?
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