Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 10:01:18 05/16/01
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On May 16, 2001 at 12:52:35, Mogens Larsen wrote: >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. Yes, for this I work hard in the last time. Now the next way ... :-) >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. Also this is right. On the other hand, I wish me that programmers have the chance to get a little bit on money. So it is a good idea to make a CD with strong amateur programs. And here is also important that the GUI is not free. For free we have WinBoard and this GUI is also in my opinion fantastic. >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. I wish me the GUIs are better compatible to WinBoard and UCI. Other ideas are bad for the customers. The customers can play with UCI Gandalf or WB Gandalf under all GUIs. So I hope that the GUI programmers make more support for WinBoard and for UCI (also important). Best Frank >Regards, >Mogens
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