Author: Robert Ericsson
Date: 11:54:46 04/27/99
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On April 27, 1999 at 12:15:06, Vasily Gagarin wrote: >Dear Chess Friends, > >Chess Assistant staff is doubtful, if it is worthwhile to provide a possibility >of running two playing engines simultaneously in Chess Assistant 5.0. >ChessBase allows a user to launch two playing engines simultaneously. Still, we >consider this doesn’t make much sense. > >The reasons are the following. >Running of two playing engines simultaneously requires: >a) At least 350 MHz computer with 64 MB RAM; >b) Windows NT >c) 2 Processors. (Strictly speaking, you can start up two playing engines >simultaneously on a single processor. However, it’s not clear if it makes sense. >If you start up two engines at the same time, they cannot use their full hash >tables and therefore are at least twice weaker.) > >The overwhelming majority of users (98% or so) are working on much slower >computers. According to our rough estimation, the most popular situation looks >like this: a single P II processor with 32 MB RAM and Windows 95/98. Therefore, >running two playing engines simultaneously is impossible for 98% of users. > >So I repeat my question, do you want us to provide a possibility of running two >playing engines simultaneously in Chess Assistant 5.0? >OPINIONS, PLEASE! >Any help would be appreciated. >Thanks, > >Vasily Gagarin I have a P-166 MMX with 32 MB RAM and Windows95. And I _do not_ intend to buy a new PC for the next coming years as I don't see much point in buying a brand new PC just for the purpose of using it for hi-tech chess program software :-) What I would like to see in CA 5.0 is: - web tools such as auto-creating html documents with cross tables, java chess playing engine etc - possibility of creating diagrams as gifs. - exporting to _true_ pgn standard - copy-and-paste moves from non-standard format right into CA - drop-and-drag of games right into CA with automatic conversion - possibility to join several databases with a single 'select all' function - possibility of filtering a database into an user-defined database with the users own preferred ECO codes. Like a 'my_openings.base' - possibility to set user-defined settings when exporting to RTF (such as number of columns, font type, font size, size of diagrams, outlook of the appearance of player names etc) - possibility to type in moves as ICCF Numeric Notation with the Numeric Keyboard (and translation to/from ICCF Numeric/PGN from/to PGN/ICCF Numeric) - possibility of writing the tag 'Date' as more then one year, e.g. 1995-1999 if it's a correspondence chess game. - the statistics in a tree should always be shown from the white side, i.e. +20 =5 -13 always means that white has won 20 games. As it is now this can be very confusing when scrolling down a tree... I think that will be enough for version 5.0 :-)
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