Author: Thomas Mayer
Date: 07:12:58 01/23/02
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Hi Uri, > It seems that there are only 10 UCI engines in the world when there are more > than an hundred of winboard engines based on what I remember from the past. and to add is here maybe that 8 of those 10 are also WinBoard engines, there are only 2 pure UCI - engines, Shredder & SOS... At the moment, we have, I think over 120 free available winboard engines and I believe with all the private engines (like yours... when is release date, Uri... :))) we are for sure over 200 engines in the winboard sector... To be honest, the publication of this short UCI-list is also my way to try to get some ChessBase users on my site and to show them that there is a big computer chess world outside of ChessBase natives and UCI... If only one of them will try a winboard engine and winboard it was worth the effort... :) >In this case I really do not understand a possible decision to support only >UCI and not winboard engines. I think WinBoard support will stay in ChessBase products... As long they don't have a better adapter they only do not offer it for download at their hompepage... And despite of the the WinBoard-Adapter-Problem, I believe that the UCI implementation is a good idea... some first reports there seem to be still some minor problems and incompatibilitys... But it's a new feature... (Anyway, sometimes still I wonder who are their Beta-Testers... :) > more programmers are going to be able to test their programs against > Fritz,Junior,Shredder,Tiger... if chessbase interface can support winboard > engines. well, thats a task for the customers to explain ChessBase that their is some need for a good adapter... At the moment I think ChessBase does not care much, they do not see for what they should create a better Adapter, they don't think that they will sell more with a good adapter... As long this is the case they will not change anything. From programmers view I can still test against the ChessBase family... the old way, auto232 and two PCs... :) Greets, Thomas
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