Rybka 3 New Release Date

[Ovyron]

if you relate it with straight GUIs such a Shredder-classic, it looks chaotic IMO.

Yes, as beta tester I still get lost within Aquarium (Like I click a menu item and then realize I'm in the wrong mode.) However, the power of the GUI makes it up for it, if you like analyzing positions and storing their analysis Aquarium is the GUI for you.

You'll also be able to buy the Rybka 3 engine without GUI, or the GUI without the engine, or at least that's what they've been saying.

[Kirk]

It seems that this would also include the Aquarium GUI ... if so, this is the best deal in Chess ever.

Ditto that sentiment

[Albert Silver]

i do not need any new GUI. we have enough GUIs that work very good.
why a new one ?

Your comment surprises me. Somehow I always thought you would be in favor of diversity and not uniformity.

Albert

[sorcerers_apprentice]

Hi,
I noticed on one of the screenshots posted to the forum, the GUI running on Ubuntu. Does it run natively on Linux or was it made to run using Wine or Cedega?

Regards

[AdminX]

Hi,
I noticed on one of the screenshots posted to the forum, the GUI running on Ubuntu. Does it run natively on Linux or was it made to run using Wine or Cedega?

Regards

It runs on Linux using Wine. I'm pretty sure that means it will work with Cedega as well.

[sorcerers_apprentice]

It runs on Linux using Wine. I'm pretty sure that means it will work with Cedega as well.

Aww... I thought they'd finally launched a commercial product that ran natively on linux...

Well, at least it does run on Wine, I couldn't even get Chess Assistant 8.1 to install.

How is the user experience when running it on Wine ? Do all features work ? can you add native Linux UCI / Winboard engines ? Can you add Windows native UCI/Winboard engines supported by Wine too ? Do the network update features for the DB work ok ?

Regards,

[AdminX]

It runs on Linux using Wine. I'm pretty sure that means it will work with Cedega as well.

Aww... I thought they'd finally launched a commercial product that ran natively on linux...

Well, at least it does run on Wine, I couldn't even get Chess Assistant 8.1 to install.

How is the user experience when running it on Wine ? Do all features work ? can you add native Linux UCI / Winboard engines ? Can you add Windows native UCI/Winboard engines supported by Wine too ? Do the network update features for the DB work ok ?

Regards,

That is a question you should ask Felix Kling on the Rybka forum. He has tested it more using Linux than I have. See Link Below:

http://rybkaforum.net/cgi-bin/rybkaforu ... l?tid=1307

[mclane]

i do not need any new GUI. we have enough GUIs that work very good.
why a new one ?

Your comment surprises me. Somehow I always thought you would be in favor of diversity and not uniformity.

Albert

yes - thats true.
i am for variance.

maybe it is that the pictures published so far do not convince me ...
the GUI looks chaotic.

it reminds me on the ChessAssistant GUIs.
many features but no real structure.

i am a fan of clear intuitive GUI's.

e.g. Shredder is such a clear structured GUI.

I have big problems with GUIs like CB-GUI, Chessmaster GUI.
IMO these GUIs are not very well done.

lets wait until we have that thing.
but i hope it is not as chaotic as it looks like.

[Ovyron]

I hope they implement a good toolbar so you wouldn't need to enter the chaos at all...

[Graham Banks]

i am a fan of clear intuitive GUI's.

e.g. Shredder is such a clear structured GUI.

I have big problems with GUIs like CB-GUI, Chessmaster GUI.
IMO these GUIs are not very well done.

Shredder, Chessbase, Arena and ChessGUI are all easy to use once you know what you're doing, with the former two being the best.
I have no recent experience with Winboard, so can't comment.
The Chessmaster GUI has gone backwards in some regards, so I don't use it.

Regards, Graham.