Author: Pete Galati
Date: 14:47:56 07/08/99
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On July 08, 1999 at 16:54:19, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >Pete, > >Lemme guess: you have stocks in Winboard Inc. :-) > Yeah, that's why I'm so damn pour! Oh and I forgot to say "See what IPM Jeroen uses at: http://home.wxs.nl/~jimvandorp/Schaken.htm" >But you're right. With Winboard you have a lot of command line options. You can >download a lot of engines. Add parameters like /fcp=jeroenchess.exe >/scp=petechess.exe /mg 100 /sgf c:\compchess.pgn and you have all you want. > That's right and I refuse to compile a petechess.eng! >There are two "but's". No tournaments with a lot of engines like in the Fritz >family. Sometimes in Winboard eng-eng games I notice engines loose on time in >won positions because of very sloppy time management. (take GNU-chess, for a >change). >Fritz and Hiarcs won't do that (maybe once or so). > Some engines that I like will get stupid in the endgame and not make a simple sacrifice that would obviously allow a pawn promotion and win the game (I don't use tablebases though). That's why I don't keep baseball bats in the same room as my computer. >And Hiarcs or Fritz are great analysis and training partners. >Fritz is for fast tactical crunches, Hiarcs is more for "positional" >understanding. > >Both come with the same (Fritz 5) interface. The engines can be used vice versa. >I love them both, but should you start buy Fritz 5.32. You'll get to Hiarcs 7.32 >eventually, whether you like it or not. >And lots of freeware engines can be used with the winboard adapter available on >the CB pages. (Not all too successful) > >Jeroen ;-} > > > ps. Well, let's start a row over CM6K, will we, Pete? :-D I have nothing good to say about that company, Chessbase is better. Pete
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