Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 15:06:57 12/15/01
Go up one level in this thread
On December 15, 2001 at 14:25:28, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On December 15, 2001 at 14:10:05, David Rasmussen wrote: > >>UCI seems like a good idea. It certainly fixes some of the problems that >>winboard has, and add some cool features. But are there any free interfaces that >>support it? > >Not AFAIK. OK. > >>I am thinking of implementing UCI in Chezzz, but for what purpose? > >Well, that's a decision of a personal nature. If it isn't interesting or >challenging for you then there's no reason to do it. You could say that it would >make your engine more accessible outside WinBoard. Especially by the release of >Shredder 6. But not by much. > It would be a challenge to me, although not an especially great one. Chezzz has a pretty good design, and it reckon it would be easy to implement UCI. But if there was some sort of purpose to it, other than challenging me, I might be more motivated :) >>I am not going to buy Shredder just to get the GUI. Will there ever be a UCI >>version of Winboard? > >A tough question to answer. > Do it anyway! :) >>Maybe I should make a freeware UCI GUI myself. Seems like a >>task that is undertakable. > >That sounds like a good idea. Let me know if you want moral support :-). > It would really be a nice introduction to graphical programming for me. But I don't know when I have the time. It will not be before I have finished Chezzz 1.0. Also, what graphical library works on both Windows and Linux, which will be my to major platforms? What does winboard/xboard do? >How is the rewrite of Chezzz progressing? > It's coming along ok. The upcoming CCT4 has got me starting again, after a long period of doing nothing on it. I hope to have a "good" version available for CCT4, and if I do, I will probably release it not too long after the event. /David
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.