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Subject: Re: First CB Program?

Author: Dave C.

Date: 17:25:31 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. :-)
>
>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.
>
I'm assuming from the name of Winboard that it is a Windows program.  Yet, what
you noted above concerning parameters appears to be DOS related.  Is Winboard a
DOS application?

>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).
>
>And Hiarcs or Fritz are great analysis and training partners.
>Fritz is for fast tactical crunches, Hiarcs is more for "positional"
>understanding.

Have you heard whether the version of Fritz that did so well at Padaborn will
become available and should I wait for it before purchasing a Fritz program?

>
>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




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