Author: José Carlos
Date: 11:07:51 05/16/01
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[snip] >>So if I want to write my own protocol for my engine, I can't? Just >>because you say so? > >Yes, please make this ! Actually I did it some time ago. Before I knew there were something called winboard, I wrote a nice GUI in Visual Basic. This was even before writing the engine! When it was near to be finished, I discovered CCC, Winboard, etc... Imagine the rest... I discarded my GUI and wrote Averno for winboard. To be true, my GUI had a nice looking, but sucked in protocol :( [snip] >Hm, I understand this but we have different GUIs in the past. Now people have >more fun on standards (protocol standards). > >Pax Chess, Chenard (very old free amateur programs) are not compatible to >WinBoard. I read more message about Averno compare to Pax Chess and Chenard. Exactly! Without noticing, you got my point. Chenard and Pax are less known than Averno. So, it's up to the authors to join the most popular GUI, or to stick with their favourite. And up to the users to go for their favourites programs/GUI's. You know, I really do love old Comet A90 DOS version. I've played much more games with it than with wb versions. Nothing bad with wb versions; simply I prefer A90 DOS. It's my choice as a user. If every engine worked only under a common GUI, I wouldn't have this choice. [snip] >>>So I have interest to powerd UCI because the GUI from Stefan is very good. >> >> Again, don't forget there does not exist a free GUI that supports UCI. UCI >>free engines are useless for me, as I don't want to buy Shredder. Winboard _is >>free_ (protocol and GUI). > >Try UCI, I think we can send the GUI if you have interest to make an UCI Engine. I'm afraid you didn't get my point here. I was speaking from the _user_ point of view. I know as a programmer I can have some priviledges, but note that I have very little time for Averno, and I want to spend it doing something that _everyone_ can enjoy. Having myself the UCI GUI for free is not enough if 'my users' don't have it. This is an important point. Regards, José C. >>>Best >>>Frank >> >> José C.
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