Author: Dragos Gabudeanu
Date: 12:17:24 05/25/99
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On May 25, 1999 at 14:17:11, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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 I agree, Fernando. I thought that it was me, but it seems you see it the same way I do. One would have to try very hard to convince me to buy the next REbel. Imagine the disappointment I felt when a good engine (Rebel) would be challenged through a hideous GUI. I don't like the Lokasoft GUI one bit mainly because the 3-d is confusing, and the 2-d is without true colors. I think it would be a shame for Ed to accept putting his engine in the Lokasoft "thing" --it does not do justice to Rebel---. And to think I was hoping for a Fritz-style GUI from Ed.... Dragos
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