Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:40:50 09/01/05
We have a lot of free chess programs with source code and the question that I ask myself is if people need to pay money for programmers or they may hope to get a program that do the task without money and save money. A good example is rating. The program that the israeli chess organization is using have a lot of disadvantages. 1)There is no option to calculate rating dynamically. It means that it is impossible to add tournaments later and ask the program to calculate the rating for previous update retroactively or to exclude tournaments that were calculated without a lot of work. 2)All the data is in one computer and it is impossible to work about everything from home. 3)It is impossible to edit results of the israeli league and if there is a mistake people need to delete everything and write it again. 4)There is no option of digital copying of tournament even if it is sent in the right format. For example it is better if the program can read cross table and enter it to the rating automatically The claim of people is that all of this is going to cost a lot of money but can save hours of work later and unfortunately the israeli chess organization does not like to spend money on better rating system. I am not sure about the first part and I think that writing a strong program like fruit2.1 is an harder task than all the tasks that are described but the programmer do not ask money for it. My question is if you think that there is an hope that the israeli chess organization can get a free program to do all the tasks without paying money in case that the organization does the right steps to explain programmers exactly what they need to do. Uri
This page took 0.01 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.