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Subject: Re: XCI (Extensible Chess Interface) new draft

Author: Michael Yee

Date: 04:01:07 03/19/05

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On March 18, 2005 at 20:49:52, Dann Corbit wrote:

>I would replace:
>XCI_NalimovPath, type searchpath (endgame tablebase paths)
>XCI_NalimovCache, type spin (endgame tablebase cache)
>
>with
>XCI_EgtbType, type egtbtype (endgame tablebase type)
>XCI_EgtbPath, type searchpath (endgame tablebase paths)
>XCI_EgtbCache, type spin (endgame tablebase cache)
>
>Suppose (for instance) you write this ~5 years ago.  Everything would be
>"XCI_Edwards..." and it would sound silly now.

Thanks for this tip. The "Nalimov" labels are a holdover from UCI that snuck in.
Initially I was trying to maintain as much compatibility with UCI as possible,
but  that goal doesn't seem as important now.

Michael



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