Scid has been around since the 90s as well, if I recall correctly. And it's
better than those other programs you mention, of course :-)
But you don't explain one thing: if Xiangqi is the most popular game in the
world, why don't Xiangqi players write software for it? Why don't you?
Remco Gerlich
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 7:34 AM, M Winther <m...@swipnet.se> wrote:
> ----- 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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