Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:23:00 06/08/03
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On June 08, 2003 at 14:28:45, Russell Reagan wrote: >On June 08, 2003 at 13:51:41, Uri Blass wrote: > >>What is the advantage of the official Microsoft protocol? >>Based on your post it only has disadvantages. > >There is an advantage, for Microsoft. If you use their "recommendation", then >all of the sudden you've written a lot of code (which for some reason Microsoft >likes to require you to do to use any of their protocols/APIs/etc.) and you're >either stuck with using only Windows, or you have to make some major >modifications to your code. > >>I do not see the problem. >>If people use buggy engines then it is their problem. > >The problem is that a DLL doesn't work like a Winboard engine. A DLL is part of >the same process, so if the engine is written as a DLL, and the engine crashes, >the ChessBase GUI crashes too. In Winboard, the GUI is a seperate process from >the engine, so if the engine crashes, Winboard or Arena can say, "the engine >crashed, I'll restart it" and go on. I still do not see the problem. In winboard if the engine crash I get out of winboard (end the process of the engine if I need to) and go back to winboard. I do not know about a way to restart the engine without leaving winboard because the only way that I start engines in winboard is by changing the winbord.ini file and running the winboard.exe I think that if chessbase interface crash I can do the same with chessbase and if I do not want it to happen I should not use engines that I do not trust. Uri
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