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Subject: Re: Draft of revised xboard/winboard engine protocol

Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Date: 11:17:47 12/08/00

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On December 08, 2000 at 14:06:15, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On December 08, 2000 at 13:53:12, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:
>
>>This is not what I wanted to see happen after publishing our UCI engine <-> user
>>interface protocol. Winboard hasn’t moved for years and now that our protocol is
>>published for a week suddenly all the improvements we added in UCI are copied to
>>winboard. I published UCI to have ONE clear and easy engine protocol. Well, UCI
>>is free, but still I don’t really like that.
>
>Stefan, please not, that these changes were discussed in the chess engines
>mailing list, before you published UCI. For my part, I made some suggestions,
>(and some of those are part of the new draft Tim has shown), before I ever
>heard of UCI. I would assume, that others didn't know of UCI, when they
>thought about enhancements of the WB protocol. So the "suddenly one week
>after ..." seems to be an accident.
>
>Regards,
>Dieter


I didn't know that as I am not on the list.
I am sorry.

   Stefan




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