Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 11:17:11 05/25/99
Hi all: I just have seen in Ed site the announcement that the new gui for window Rebel will be the very same that now is used by the program Chess Partner, produced by Lokasoft. Now my question is: it's me that I have a too much delicate sense of what is tasteful or really that Gui is not in the same league Rebel is? My very humble opinion: ChessPartner GUi -without making judgement of the qualities of the engine- is poor, obsolete, the kind of GUI that you expected to get in the old times of CGS screens. It is far, very far Fritz Gui, not to mention CM GUI, Power Chess Gui, CSTAL gui, etc. Not even has 3D screens as far as I have seen in the Chess partner demo. Did I miss something? I do not say Rebel for windows should have a Gui equally full of flashy features as Power Chess or Cm6000, BUT even if you like spartan type of presentations, that by Lokasoft seems to me too much akward and it is a huge dissapontment to be waitin Rebel windows just to get that second class design. I suppose Ed did what he thought best in terms of financial agreements and/or the Chesspartner gui, although ugly, is techicaly very good, but, again, you expect -I expected- something really great and not just an old, sketchy, akward. A pity. Fernando
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