Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 10:39:54 01/06/04
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On January 06, 2004 at 13:22:45, Tord Romstad wrote: >thanks >to the wise choices of Tim Mann and Stefan Meyer-Kahlen... I think the choices of Tim Mann in designing Winboard are a major contributing factor to the popularity of computer chess, and why there are hundreds of free Winboard chess engines. I have wanted to experiment with other board games in the past, but they didn't have the same kinds of standards that computer chess has, so I lost interest very quickly when I was unable to play (for instance) my amazons program against other amazons programs. There were some possibilities, but that meant implmenting some protocol to communicate with an amazons server. If I could just implement the "Amazons protocol" and then have all of the free things that you get with Winboard, I would probably still be actively experimenting with amazons programming. With Winboard or UCI, you just have to implement one protocol, and you can be done implementing protocols forever. You don't have to implement ICS protocols for instance. You can play in many nice GUIs, in many operating systems without having to modify a single line of code, you can play online without having to change anything, and so on. In other words, you implement one easy to understand protocol, and you get a ton of stuff for free.
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