Author: Pete Galati
Date: 18:48:51 02/11/00
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On February 11, 2000 at 20:24:30, Vincent Vega wrote: >Can somebody please explain to me why are chess programmers so seemingly unable >to create a decent user interface? Half of the programs run only under Firtz >interface or under X/Winboard. While it seems like it is a logical choice not >to reinvent the wheel, those interfaces are very far from being good. They are >so limited and so unintuitive. The other half is much worse - how can anyone >justify having a DOS program in the 21st century? [........] I love Dos programs, my favorite programs are in Dos. Besides, there are very few comercial Dos Chess programs left. But like I said in an earlier post not related to this one, about the only Chess program that I'll actually sit down and play a game against anymore is the Dos version of Comet. I go to Crafty if I want to annotate a game or take advantage of any of it's other cool features, but to play a game, I use the Dos Comet. As for Winboard, there's a few things that are not obvious right away, but aside from the initial bit about learning to set things up in the initiation file, there's really nothing too strenuous there. Winboard's the best, great interface, wish there was a way to run Chessbase engines through it, but oh well, no big loss But you're welcome to write a new interface if you want, or have the time & knowhow, are you volenteering?? Pete
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