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Subject: Re: The old problem ...

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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