Chess System Tal 2.05 upgrade

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Bart Weststrate
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Re: Chess System Tal 2.05 upgrade

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chrisw wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2026 1:37 pm Good - anarcho-syndicalist engine programmers against monopoly capitalist Chessbase.
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Re: Chess System Tal 2.05 upgrade

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Peter Berger wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2026 1:19 pm Thanks for the release!

I'll do the boring reports:

1.) Book bug not fixed yet

2.) Version management:

Both downloads want to be named Chess System Tal 2.05 as engines. Interfaces like ChessBase can't handle that, users have to interfere. It would be nice if the engines would announce their exact name and networks by themselves.
Any reason why you use a CB product ?
You should have learned in the many years by now that CB is holy crap.
The whole company has been sold to Kasachstan.
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Peter Berger
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Re: Chess System Tal 2.05 upgrade

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mclane wrote: Thu Jun 18, 2026 7:02 am Any reason why you use a CB product ?
You should have learned in the many years by now that CB is holy crap.
The whole company has been sold to Kasachstan.
I can explain.

I use the GUI that came with Fritz 17. After accepting updates for a while (to get the most relevant bug fixes), I eventually stopped updating. My experience was that some updates fixed existing issues but also introduced new ones, so I preferred to stay with a version whose behaviour I know very well.

Is the interface completely bug-free? No. But it is very stable for the way I use it, and I am familiar with all of its quirks by now. Usability is pretty good as well. So why change?
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Re: Chess System Tal 2.05 upgrade

Post by Chacal X »

Hello,
Would it be possible to compile in SSE41 or the new Universal compilation system? Thank you, as my PC does not support AVX2.

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