Author: Chessfun
Date: 03:11:44 12/09/00
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On December 08, 2000 at 14:17:47, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote: >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 I thought I once read that Tim planned no further changes to Winboard due to time limitations and that others maybe would continue. I know there was talk about adapting it to also run tournaments. But it would seem to me from that alone Stefan has a reasonable point. Sarah.
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