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Subject: Re: Is it time for the Winboard Protocol to go the way of the Dodo?

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 10:58:46 03/09/05

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On March 09, 2005 at 13:16:35, Peter Schäfer wrote:

>On March 09, 2005 at 12:28:41, Pallav Nawani wrote:
>
>>On March 09, 2005 at 12:13:26, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>>
>>>The Anthony WB/UCI comparison:
>>>
>>>+UCI:
>>>
>>>Interface is cleaner & easier to implement, not being based on the crappy GNU
>>>chess protocol.
>
>Don't think so. Both protocols are pretty easy to implement.
>There are a few odd things in UCI:
>
>* engines can't resign and decide about draw !?
>* UCI's "stateless" approach causes some headaches to engine authors
>  and is usually cirumvented by transmitting large move lists all the time
>  (wouldn't call that clean...)

Honestly I don't understand all the people that bitch about long move lists.
What exactly is the problem?  The extra 200 cycles it takes before a search?

anthony

• Re: Is it time for the Winboard Protocol to go the way of the Dodo? Sune Fischer 13:59:40 03/09/05

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