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Subject: Re: Shredder wins in Graz after controversy

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 12:21:18 12/09/03

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>I see the GUI rather independent from the engine. I would agree if you e.g.
>forbid the GUI to use stuff like book handling, internal tablebase handling,
>claim draw (!) etc.. But the rest is more or less the same in each GUI. It would
>be the same if you would force me to write my own GUI (which I wont do) or
>tournament console mode (which I consider to do).

Agreed. If the GUI is solely used to make operation a bit comfortabler, it
should be okay.

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>BTW: Nexus which is written in Delphi has also a very nice GUI.
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>>On tourneys, I like to use my own simple text GUI, supporting operator time,
>>clock adjustment, producing a loud noise to wake you up after moving, ...
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>In Graz Thomas was the only one whose engine made a lot of noise. It was a bit
>annoying but on the other hand it was very comfortable if you played with Quark.
>:-)
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>>However, on ipcc in Paderborn for instance, the organizers like to publish the
>>games online in web. This is more comfortably done using the Fritz GUI, which
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>Yes, we did this in Graz, too.
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>>can be configured to update a pgn file after each move. But I guess that the
>>athmosphere on ipcc is far more relaxed than on wmcc ?
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>The athmosphere in Graz was relaxed. It wasn´t in the chess forums. It was my
>first real life tournament so I cannot compare it with Paderborn.

Perhaps, you should broaden your tourney experience. Paderborn is a very nice
tourney and the city is _real_ cheap.

Uli

>
>Greetings,
>Steffen.



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