Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 04:15:18 12/23/99
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Hello, all 37 engines (at the moment free, see my overview) runs fine under WinBoard. Tim Mann made a fantastic work. Grafik is toy, chess is important. But I can understand that professionel GUIs are popular. The options in this GUI are good for learning and ... . I read last year in a big german computer newspaper that the most people click in the graphical interfaces but work not with the programs. When a good GUI have 100 options then the people use 10% from this options, this is the reality. I use 5-10% from the Chess-Base 7 options. OK, I work the most time with Chess-Base 7.0 (my favorite GUI), here it is simply to work with databases and I can with many programs make analyzes. Engine-Engine with WinBoard Engines I play under WinBoard, here the matches runs with 100% power and without mistakes. Furthermore is important that the engines are WinBoard compatible. I think that in the next year a lot of professionel GUIs use this "WinBoard Engines". So I hope that the programmer which programmed a GUI (and WB Engines runs) make here his programs compatible to WinBoard. I think, when the programmer use WinBoard for a commercial success then the programmer can give a WinBoard engine for other GUIs ! Furthermore the people buy more programs when of the CD is a WinBoard engine (good example is Nimzo 2000). People which have an other opinion are blind in my eyes or will not go with the time. And so WinBoard is the number 1 (for the programmer, I say this 37 engines and I think 20 engines which are not free, commercial or privateware). And the vather of this concept is Tim Mann. A good example are the nalimov table bases. The amateurs are the first and the professionels are the second members (OK Marthy Hirsch made his program early compatible to the Nalimov endgame databases). An fantastic programmer ... Marty Hirsch ... I hope that in the next year find a MChess WinBoard engine on my harddisk. Marty must not programmed a new GUI, important is a WinBoard engine and I think many people buy this WinBoard engine from Marty. Kind regards Frank PS And WinBoard ... ? The amateurs are the first and the professionel are the ... This is not new for me !
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