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Subject: Re: Chessmaster on winboard?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 09:49:06 02/28/00

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On February 28, 2000 at 00:18:47, Christopher R. Dorr wrote:

>Why don't they release a Winboard engine?
>
>Because they would have *absolutely nothing* to gain. It would take significant
>programming effort on their part, and would not generate any additional sales.
>The makers of Chess Master care very little for the 100-5000 hard-core
>enthusiasts who even know that there even *are* winboard engines. We would buy
>CM8K (or whatever) regardless of the winboard interface. And the 99.99% of the
>other Chess Master purchasers couldn't care less about it.
>
>Therefore, it wouldn't be a particularly good move on their part to spend money
>for something from whcih they would generate no return.
>
>Chris

Well, I have some news from the Chessmaster development team. They (and Johan)
are currently doing a "proof of concept" regarding making the next version of
Chessmaster Winboard compatible. They have told me that the current Winboard
protocol does not handle everything they will need to do, however, so they have
(as has been said elsewhere) a fair amount of coding to do to get it to work.

Nevertheless, they feel that it would be a benefit for people to be able to
bring other Winboard-compatible engines into CM8000 (or whatever it will be
called). HOWEVER, from what they have told me, it APPEARS that The King itself
will NOT be usable OUTSIDE Chessmaster, and it is very likely that you will not
be able to analyze with any other engine other than The King. In other words,
you can bring another engine into Chessmaster ONLY to play chess.

Still, though, it sounds exciting to me (one of those 0.01% who know about these
things). I hope it actually happens....

jm




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