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Subject: Re: Stop UCI support order, because CBase will no longer supported WinBoard!

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:04:46 01/22/02

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On January 22, 2002 at 13:41:32, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On January 22, 2002 at 12:02:41, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>I support winboard.  Period.  I have no plans to _ever_ support UCI or
>>any other protocol.  I would suggest that everybody follow this and leave
>>ChessBase alone.  They will realize that it is an advantage to both support
>>winboard _and_ support it right rather than with the piece of crap design
>>they currently use.
>
>That is also the view I support. But it is not difficult to understand an
>aspiring chess programmer's ambition to test his progress against the best
>commercial engines. Especially without knowing the history.
>
>BTW, could one imagine that the Chessbase people would create a Crafty UCI
>engine from the available source code? Much in the same manner as the current
>native version.
>
>Secondly, I feel obligated :-) to bug you about the lack of an 18.13 executable
>at your ftpsite. Or is there a chance of adjustments being made after the CCT4
>tournament is over?

He doesn't make them.  Bob runs Linux versions.  You need to bug Eugene instead.
 Meanwhile, Thomas Mayer has a binary and I made one too.  Eugene's will be
better when it does arrive.



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