Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 12:45:38 05/25/99
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I downloaded Chess Partner, and tried it out for a couple of games only. I found the GUI awfull; the pieces were ugly, and when you make a move with the mouse, they fade before reappairing at the new location. Unfortaunately, Nothing in the Chess Partner Gui compares with Chess Genius5/6, Fritz5, Chess System Tall II, Chessica, or Even CM6000. (The programs' I have, and am most famailer with). I quickly lost interest in Chess Partner, primarily because of the inadaquet interface. I din't want to say anything here on the chess newsgroup, because I also thought, 'this is a very individual taste' kind of opinion, and did not want to (potentially), hurt Chess Partner's sales. Now I hope that Ed Schroder is reading this (& other simular), post, and will consider making some major improvments to this interface, or decide to use a completely different interface entirely, for the the Windows version of Rebel. mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict! - And PS, I pridict the next GM up, gets beat by Rebel:) 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
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