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Subject: Re: Bloatware

Author: Joshua Shriver

Date: 08:24:05 10/20/05

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I wonder if it's possible to play Fritz under Xboard/winboard via polyglot. If
so then you could get around the unneeded data by using the engine directly with
a smaller GUI.

Just an idea.
Josh

On October 20, 2005 at 10:03:52, Mike Hood wrote:

>Am I the only person who is shocked by Fritz's development from being sold on a
>floppy disk (Fritz 1), to a CD (Fritz 4), to two CDs (Fritz 7) to a DVD (Fritz
>9)? How many Fritz users listen to Matthias Deutschmann while they play? How
>many use the beautifully crafted 3-D chess sets? How many play against the Turk?
>
>When I loaded Fritz 9 the first thing I did, as a red-blooded male, was to get
>closer to Mia and zoom in on her from all possible angles. And I was
>disappointed, since she isn't as realistic as the Turk. Then I deleted her,
>along with her Turkish associate. Does Chessbase really think that the immense
>programming effort they put into these two characters is more important than
>coding a fully functional UCI adapter?
>
>Isn't it time for an anti-bloatware counter-revolution? What's the smallest
>state-of-the-art chess program? Engine+GUI+Book with no additional trimmings?
>Preferably Windows. Is there anything where the installation files fit onto one
>floppy disk? I still have Fritz 3 (Dos) on my computer. After deleting the
>database it takes up less than 500 KB. Those were the good old days.



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