Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 09:52:35 05/16/01
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Hey Frank, The only free GUI AFAIK is WinBoard. Making sure that the commercial GUIs are WinBoard compatible is the most important issue IMO. That means no crappy or flawed adapters with the intended purpose of discouraging people from using (and creating) WinBoard compatible engines. IMO the commercial software providers can create all the native protocols they wish. Of course it's an advantage with a free protocol like UCI, so that programmers can construct an engine for a (IMO) great GUI. But the GUI isn't free (it rhymes but it still costs dimes :-). If SMK released a freeware UCI GUI then it would be something else entirely. Then it would be a free alternative to WinBoard. In general I believe that an engine should be compatible to as many different GUIs as possible. Either through a common protocol or through releasing multiple versions. This reduces the costs for the average consumer. I prefer the first option, mainly because the choice is obvious at the moment. An obvious common protocol should be WinBoard. The latter option can cause confusion, but it's an option as well. Regards, Mogens
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