Author: Matthew White
Date: 17:13:52 06/04/03
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On June 04, 2003 at 18:25:00, Mike S. wrote: >On June 04, 2003 at 16:16:19, Jim Bodkins wrote: > >>On June 04, 2003 at 16:12:07, Charles Smith wrote: >> >>>I'm a new member to this forum so I'm sure this question has been asked before. >>>The question is why doesn't ChessBase have a gui that accepts winboard engines >>>without having to use an adapter and do they have any plans to introduce one in >>>the future? > >>I bet they dont. (...) > >They did, in the past (prior to F7's UCI compatability). > >Due to the different GUI/Engine concepts of WinBoard and Fritz, the CB. WinBoard >adapter never worked good enough, at least not with every WB. engine (although >there are some it works ok for, i.e. Delfi AFAIK). That adapter is discontinued, >and not included anymore with new CB. programs. > >The ChessBase WB. adapter version of Nov. 2000 worked best; it is included i.e. >with Yace (but not needed for Yace of course if you have F7/8 etc., only for >older CB GUIs). > >But I assume people will prefer the Wb2Uci method anyway. > >Regards, >M.Scheidl Are you sure about that? I have Fritz 6 and 7, and neither could use a winboard engine without the winboard adapter as far as I could tell. Matt
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