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Subject: Re: WB2 protocol: Announcement/Suggestion

Author: Alessandro Scotti

Date: 15:59:12 11/06/04

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On November 06, 2004 at 17:50:14, Daniel Mehrmannn wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
>i want to pickup a new idea or a old problem with the current wb2
>protocol.
>
>...
>
>What happend if all engines know which wb2 GUI will be used ? That would be
>wonderfull and the engine __CAN__, not __must__, support special features of
>this GUI.
>
>This include all aspects about the protocol, information strings and other
>stuff.

I think that would defeat the purpose of having a standard protocol in the first
place. One could even add a "gui uci" extension and transform XBoard in UCI...

>-Example:<br>
>-Winboard / Xboard send:<br>
>-xboard\n<br>
>-gui xboard 4.2\n<br>
>-protover 2\n<br>

Shouldn't that be something like:

xboard
protover 3
...engine responds with something like "feature gui=1"
gui xboard



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