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Subject: Re: Zappa UCI: You are all a bunch of HYPOCRITES

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 07:24:18 09/06/05

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On September 05, 2005 at 18:46:30, Torstein Hall wrote:

>On September 05, 2005 at 00:17:40, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On September 04, 2005 at 20:12:36, Barry Culp wrote:
>>
>>>Interesting points on the some of the failings of Chessbase. No argument from me
>>>on there.
>>>
>>>However I use the CB GUI. I like Zappa 1.1 enough to use it there as a UCI
>>>engine.
>>>
>>>Now its possible that the commercial version Zappa 2.0 will not support UCI. So
>>>does anyone expect me to buy it ? The free version has UCI. The commercial
>>>version may not.  Get real .. you are offering something in the free version
>>>that is NOT in the commercial version . Why should I buy it ? It doesnt work in
>>>the GUI that I prefer. Not gonna happen. I am not a hypocrite.. REALITY check
>>>please.
>>>
>>>Ryan
>>
>>You are not hypocrite if you say that the reason for not buying it is that it
>>does not work under chessbase.
>>
>>The point of GCP was that people who complain that it is not UCI engine when
>>they only want to use it under chessbase are hypocrite because their real reason
>>is "it does not work under chessbase" and they do not say it.
>>
>>Uri
>
>What about Arena, Shredder classic and the others who do support UCI? Are they
>not valid reasons for wanting a UCI version?

Perhaps. It depends if there turns out to be a big need to run Zappa under such
a GUI.

To quote myself:

"I know 95% of you is really using Fritz so you can test against CB engines."

There is a small amount of users who would want UCI support to run the engine
*outside* Fritz. Sandro Necchi is probably one of them, too.

But you are a *really tiny* minority.

--
GCP



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