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

Author: José Carlos

Date: 13:41:15 12/08/00

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On December 08, 2000 at 13:53:12, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:

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>
>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

  This sounds to me like: oh, no, I've implemented tablebases and now those
freeware engines have implemented them too!!! (and I used the tablebases
concept, as I could have used any other). If you make something public, do
expect free software to use it soon.
  Furthermore, I see no point in making public the protocol, and not the GUI.
Winboard adapting to UCI is not very different than writing a new GUI using UCI,
IMO, and that was what you expected, am I wrong?

  José C.



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