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Subject: Re: To Anthony Cozzie and Vincent Diepeveen regarding Zappa/Diep UCI

Author: Madhavan

Date: 20:07:57 09/05/05

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On September 05, 2005 at 16:21:22, Juan Pablo Naar C. wrote:

>Hi Anthony and Vincent,
>
>What you have to lose if you release your engines as UCI? You won't lose sales,
>that's for sure. If Zappa/Diep would be UCI not only you'll win sales, but many
>people can post results about Zappa and Diep fighting hard against other strong
>engines like Toga, Fruit, Spike and Shredder.

Who said Diep is going to be released along with Zappa
there was the rumour that only DIEP's GUI would be released along with Zappa
engine
Please point me out where Vincent or someone claimed that Diep would be released
Maybe I missed.

>I know that your new GUI will be supporting UCI protocol, but there is nothing
>like running engines in external GUIs. Like running them on Arena, Chesspartner
>(to match it against Tiger 2004), Chessbase (To match it against Fritz, junior,
>Hiarcs).
>
>Zappa WB2 would be very interesting, but if you are going to release it, please
>release it :-). But Zappa UCI/WB will have an advantage too, it will participate
>on UCI only tournaments like the excellent Alex Schmidt and the french UCI
>leagues. It will also be an advantage for the people no to use the adapter to
>use it on the Chessbase GUI, many people will want it to play on the PlayChess
>server, match them against Fritz, etc, take them as analysis tools and play them
>with their favorite created CTG book.

Zappa WB,hooking to chessbase GUI is almost as same as UCI itself,so there
should be no difference in the playing style

>Please tell me what you have to lose.

Chessmaster customers

>Good luck,
>
>Juan Pablo Naar



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