Author: James Swafford
Date: 06:03:39 02/12/00
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On February 11, 2000 at 20:24:30, Vincent Vega wrote: Most chess programmers would prefer to concentrate on the strength of their engines, hence the flood of new winboard/ xboard engines. There are some, albeit few, that are working on their own interface. :-) I have no idea why anybody would create a new DOS program. -- James >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? > >And before somebody says that it's hard, why don't you do it yourself, blah, >blah - I just finished a 200,000 LOC commercial program with UI complexity much >greater than any chess program ever had, so I know it can be done and no I won't >do it unless there is good money involved.
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