Author: Reinhard Scharnagl
Date: 12:53:50 01/06/04
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On January 06, 2004 at 15:24:00, Tord Romstad wrote: >On January 06, 2004 at 13:48:17, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: > >>I do not understand, what your problem is. If you are satisfied with existing >>protocols, nobody want to take it away from you. But I see a need for a more >>modern protocol supporting also 10x8 boards, exotic chess pieces and a unic >>encoding of moves, not like Winboard is doing it with castlings. > >I agree entirely that this would be nice, but I don't see how this is >related to the use of console IO. It is obviously possible to extend >the xboard protocol to support other games. In fact, I am using an >extension of the xboard protocol when adding support for hexagonal >chess in Gothmog. > >>As I have told: if you are satisfied with them - fine! I am not. I really do not >>understand, what the goal of your posting could be. Are you thinking, that >>someone will take something away from you? I am still wondering. > >I was wondering why you why you are not satisfied with the existing protocols, >why you think it would be better to replace them with something entirely >new instead of extending them, and why you consider the use of console >IO to be disadvantageous. In the following answer I gave an example [http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?340574]. I still cannot see, how to change established protocols. I also described a proposal to an extended FEN (so called FRC-FEN), see [http://www.rescon.de/Compu/fullchess5_e.html], but was completly ignored by Winboarders. Well it already is a hard job to concern on special chess ideas like FRC or Capablanca's chess. I have no additional energy left for to convince a lot of people, who do not see any need for a change, because such variants are of no interest for them. They do not see, that I do not want they to switch e.g. to FRC, but only to get a usable protocol. Regards, Reinhard.
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