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Subject: Re: I will not buy Zappa and Sjeng

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 02:42:55 09/06/05

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On September 06, 2005 at 05:20:40, Robert Hollay wrote:

>On September 06, 2005 at 04:22:55, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>
>>I understood that he only criticized the reason that people give not to buy
>>zappa(not supporting UCI)
>>
>>This is not the reason if the same people buy Fritz or Junior that do not
>>support UCI.
>>
>
> It _could be_ the reason.
>Those people who bought Fritz and/or Junior had also bought a GUI which
>supports these engines (Chessbase...). So they are used to this GUI, are
>familiar with this GUI, maybe they are too old to start to live with a
>new GUI with all it's twists and bugs. All programs have bugs, the new
>GUI for Zappa will not be an exception...
> Likewise it's hard to persuade Windows-people to switch to Linux, and
>vice versa.
> So, a new engine without UCI (or WB at least) will not be attracting for them.
>
>  Robert

Yes but the reason is simply that it does not run under chessbase and not that
it does not support UCI.

Uri



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