Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 23:38:08 03/09/05
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On March 09, 2005 at 21:10:08, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >>In UCI, can anyone justify why the entire move history has to be sent for each >>move? >> >>In WB if a series of moves really has to be sent, then you just send the "force" >>command followed by the moves. Otherwise, its just the next single move. That's >>what I'd call 'elegant'. > >WHY DOES EVERYONE BITCH ABOUT THE ***** MOVELIST? DO YOU ALL RUN ON 8088's? Generally speaking communication costs $. Imagine if your chess program created a socket (e.g. via GPRS) to a chess server, and used UCI to relay moves. You'd be ruined fast. It's simply good style not to parse redundant data, IMO. >OK. I feel better now. > >When I say 'elegant', I mean easy to parse, and simple, not necessarily small. I don't think it is easier to parse, but that's just my subjective evaluation. -S. >anthony
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