Author: Marian Predescu
Date: 07:20:57 05/27/99
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On May 26, 1999 at 21:25:20, Robert Pawlak wrote: >On May 26, 1999 at 18:52:00, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>On May 26, 1999 at 17:17:42, Robert Pawlak wrote: >> >>Dear Robert: >>It is not question of "teeth knashing", but just the fair demands of faithful >>customer that want to see the very best gui for one of the very best programs. I >P.S. sorry about the k - should be a g as in gnash... > >>did not intend to begin a thread about this to disturb nobody, less Ed, but on >>the contrary to help him because surely now has a better judgement of what we, >>customers, want and expect from him. This is far better that to face criticism >>AFTER the product is in the shells and nothing can be done. > >Yes, this is very true. But I don't think you can expect perfection in a first >attempt at a windows interface. > >>Of course, also, I know, all of us know, Ed decided this because some good >>reasons and we can specualte a lot, as you do, about that. Nobody has said Ed >>did this just to bother us, as a matter of whimsical will. Nevertheless, is our >>"task" as customers and even friends of the man to say him straight what we >>thinks of his ideas and decisions. I truly expected -as many here- a wonderful >>gui in the level rebel is wonderful as a program. That means beauty, elegance, >>etc, even whistles and bells you are not compelled to use. But besides the bells >>are a lot of things aditional to what is now a commodity in the business and >>that I expected from a rebel windows gui and nothing of that appears connected >>to the decision to use the Cp Gui. > >While we're on the subject, what constitutes a minimum set of features for >rebel? > >Engine param modification including ELO handicapping >Opening book editor, and formation of books from game collection Why not add an opening tree, like Junior and Fritz have? Lack of this and of the variations makes us almost never go back to the old Rebel for the daily usage(and we very seldom remember it afterwards, even if in theory we did intend to try its analysis and such...) >Basic database facilities It would be also nice to interface with ChessBase directly(but I bet that it would be hard to license an engine for ChessBase, in order to have it incorporated as Fritz does.... Still most people maintain their databases in CB format, as far as we can tell) Marian >Good 2-D set >Support for variations >Automated EPD and game analysis >PGN and EPD import/export > >Any thoughts? >Bob P.
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