Author: Thomas Mayer
Date: 14:38:18 01/22/02
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Hi Albert, >> I found a menu called Create UCI engine in F7 after 22. January upgrade. Are >> there any free ones around I can try? > This brings up another question. I've seen the furor (justified IMO) regarding > the lack of WB support by Fritz and Co. However with this new support of UCI, > WB users may have an alternate solution: the WBtoUCI dapter that comes with > Shredder5 (Millenium Edition). Whether or not it also comes with Shredder 6 I > cannot say. Has this been tried? Maybe there is a posibility, yes -> but the wb2uci from Shredder 5 & 6 is nearly as crippled as the ChessBase adapter, so what would that help at all ? I am thinking about other solutions, but ask me that after Paderborn... Okay, another solution is of course: buy the ChessPartner GUI or ChessMaster or ChessAssistant or ChessAcadamy, those company's knows how to program a winboard adapter... Anyway, the effort to have UCI compatibility in CB is not bad, seems to work fine after some first tests... Now it must be checked if they have not crippled that protocol in the same way then WinBoard... To Torstein: AFAIK we have the following free UCI engines: Yace, Pepito, Pharaon & AnMon... Dragon & a new SOS might be there in the nearest future... Available as commercials are: LambChop 10.88 Patzer 3.61 Gandalf 4.32h Capture R1 Shredder 5 / 6 Deep Shredder SOS There were some more in the pipeline for WinBoard Edition III, afaik Leila & Nejmet were near to a working version... I know from some others and from myself (hey, me and I, we are talking with each other from time to time... :) that some more plan to implement UCI in the future, but with no deadline or whatever... The only interesting feature for me is the multipv capabilitys of UCI, but maybe that will be also soon part of the winboard specification so there is no more need for it to me... So motivation can be to get it simply to work... in engine strength it will not help in any way... some advanced technics and ideas can't be tried with UCI because the protocol is to strict and does not allow the engine enough control... Greets, Thomas
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