----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Petrescu" <apetr...@gmail.com> To: "M Winther" <m...@swipnet.se> Cc: <scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 7:13 AM Subject: Re: [Scid-users] A database for Xiangqi?
>I think being fond of programming and solving problems is a >necessary, but > not sufficient, condition. There are so many interesting problems in > the > world to solve, why would anyone spend so much of their limited time > creating something as intricate as Scid if they didn't have a > special > interest in Chess? > > I could be wrong, but I'd be surprised :) Most volunteer > contributors large > open-source projects are heavy users of their own programs. > > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:10 PM, M Winther <m...@swipnet.se> wrote: > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Adrian Petrescu" <apetr...@gmail.com> >> To: <m...@swipnet.se> >> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 7:04 AM >> Subject: Re: [Scid-users] A database for Xiangqi? >> >> >> > Probably because the current effort is being made by chess fans, >> > for >> > the >> > love of chess. If they don't care about Xiangqi, arguments about >> > market >> > share and usefulness won't feel very convincing. >> > >> > I think your proposal is a good one, I just don't think Scid >> > users >> > are the >> > right market for it. Being a chess player may have a *slight* >> > correlation >> > with being a Xiangqi player, but not much of one. Being Chinese >> > is >> > probably >> > a much stronger indicator. I would suggest going to some Chinese >> > developer >> > forums and pitching the idea there -- if there really are no >> > existing >> > solutions, like you say, then it should be easy to get people >> > excited. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Adrian But it can't be correct, because if the programmers have a great need for sophisticated chess software then they wouldn't need to develop it, because they could use TascBase or Chess Assistant, instead, who have both been around since the nineties. Or they could use any of the already developed free chess databases, (or they could use the free Chess Genius for DOS which has a chess tree and a powerful analysis engine, etc.) There is no end to the resources in chess software, although I can well understand that people want an alternative to ChessBase. Mats >> > >> > Thu Dec 16 2010 22:01:51 GMT-0800 (PST) <m...@swipnet.se>: >> > Original Message From: "Steven" <stevena...@yahoo.com> To: "M >> > Winther ... >> > >> >> I think that many people who develop chess programs do it because >> they >> are fond of programming and solving problems, and like to be >> helpful. >> I don't >> think it depends so much on their chess interest. >> >> Mats >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Lotusphere 2011 >> Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how >> to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment >> to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d >> _______________________________________________ >> Scid-users mailing list >> Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
