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Subject: Re: Questions to Jeroen Noomen

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 07:39:12 02/22/06

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On February 21, 2006 at 18:12:26, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On February 21, 2006 at 16:22:27, JNoomen wrote:
>
>>I have never made any native books: the Rebel books could only be used by Rebel,
>>the Chess Tiger books only by Tiger. So I am quite used to it :-).
>
>I guess that's exactly what people find strange about your decision.  Your
>Rebel books could be used by Rebel, your Chess Tiger books could be
>used by Chess Tiger, while your Rybka book cannot be used by Rybka.
>It can only be used by buying another chess program sold by a
>different company.  This looks completely absurd to me.

I absolutely agree that Jeroens reasoning above is completely
against himself. Moreover I want to add that the books for the LokaSoft
GUI (Rebel, ProDeo, DeepSjeng) _can be used_ _independent_ from the
GUI used for the engine itself!

Guenther

>
>Not that I care much, really.  I very rarely use opening books, and
>being a non-Windows I cannot use Rybka anyway.  I understand why
>people are surprised and disappointed, though.
>
>Tord



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