What is the difference between using a Native version and using the Winboard adapter?
Native versions of Winboard Engines are Winboard engines that have being specially tweaked and complied to work in Chessbase environments. However, not all programmers have chosen to submit their programs to become Native versions. Winboard engines that use the Winboard adapter to run, may not work as well as native versions since the Winboard protocol is badly implemented in Chessbase. If you still wish to do so , see abovefor instructions on how to do so and where to download the Winboard adaptor, espically now that’s it’s not on the Chessbase site. The newer Chessbase interfaces like Fritz 7, Shredder 6 (chessbase version) and Hiracs 8 etc also support UCI. While such engines run better than Winboard engines they are not native Chessbase engines either.
