Author: Sergei Smith
Date: 23:27:06 09/03/01
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On September 03, 2001 at 18:24:43, Frank Quisinsky wrote: >On September 03, 2001 at 14:15:02, Sergei Smith wrote: > >>... >>>But maybe in the future, UCI is one good way by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen and Rudolf >>>Huber. >>... >>>b) The free UCI concept compatible to Chess-Base 8 and the next Fritz GUI >>>version. >>... >>>Maybe the best way, WinBoard is great and I am a fan from WinBoard but for much >>>persons to complicated. UCI is easy ... >>... >> >>Do you mean that UCI is a free GUI and downloadable like WinBoard ? >>Can you play engine against engine matches or tournaments in UCI with WinBoard >>engines ? > >Hi, > >UCI is free. >Commercial firms can added the concept in here GUIs and x Engines works fine >with a lot of interesting options. > >If a programmer have interest to create a free UCI GUI is this not a problem. >Furthermore, Shredder 6 is comming soon. Stefan Meyer Kahlen say that he have >interest to added more engine options in the GUI. Chess Assistant is compatible >to UCI. It is not important that you can play under UCI GUIs, like Shredder 5 >and Chess Assistant played with all WinBoard engines. UCI have more interesting >possibilitys compare to WinBoard and is easy to add an Engine in this GUI. > >WinBoard is important but not all persons have an internet accout for download >all this engines and have problems with WinBoard. So UCI is important for this >group of persons, for the group of Chess-Assistant and Shredder fans and I >believe also for the group of Chess-Base GUI fans because the best way for user >and fans is that Chess-Base 8 and Fritz 6 is compatible to UCI. Programmers >witch have interest can then played under 3 interesting GUIs with his programs >... the reason is ... UCI is free. > >Stefan Meyer Kahlen have no very big interest to work more in his WinBoard code >or in his WinBoard adatper. I think also this is not important for this concept. >More and more engines are compatible to UCI and I think not every engine must be >for free available. > >UCI is at the moment the best concept. >- Shredder 5.0 GUI >- Chess Assistant 6.1 >- Concept is free >- a lot of possitibilitys >- engine options without configuration file > >... > >Best >Frank In that case, with all those possibilities, I will try UCI GUI instead of WinBoard GUI. Where can you download UCI GUI ?
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