Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 06:51:24 04/16/04
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On April 15, 2004 at 20:07:02, John Merlino wrote: >On April 15, 2004 at 19:04:01, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: > >>On April 15, 2004 at 15:31:22, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote: >> >>> >>>Below you find an extension of the UCI protocol which was discussed with many >>>engine authors at the IPCCC earlier this year in Paderborn and finally worked >>>out with Rudolf Huber of SOS, Dieter Bürßner of YACE and myself. This new >>>version is fully compatible with the old protocol (just one tiny exception, see >>>below), so you can load and old engine in a new user interface and a new engine >>>in an old user interface. This is the reason why we did not call it UCI2 or >>>something. >>> >>>The main changes are: >>> >>>* a possibility to set the engine to any playing strength measured in Elo, >> >>I like this option very much, hope it encourage engine authors to create engines >>that support it. > >It's a good idea, but I don't expect too many authors to put a lot of time into >trying to make it remotely accurate. Think how long it would take Dieter (for >example) to be able to program his engine to play something reasonably >approximating 1000 ELO....then 1200 ELO...then 1400...or whatever different >settings this new protocol is going to allow. A difficult task. > >I suspect that most authors are simply going to artificially limit the search >depth and/or NPS and say that they now "support" this feature. > >The King is the only engine I know of that does this well, and I would guess >that Johan spent a great deal of time making sure that his engine could be >"dumbed down" in a believable way. This is likely not what the typical (unpaid) >engine programmer is going to want to spend his time on. > >jm If you say that only The King has this feature you really live in commercial wishland. Of course there is many engines which can do this. You just never download nor took the effort of buying them, that's all. Saying that the most important commercial feature 'as far as you know' is only supported by chessmaster is utter crap trivially.
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