Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: The King and UCI: to John Merlino

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 13:45:58 01/23/02

Go up one level in this thread


On January 23, 2002 at 16:31:08, John Merlino wrote:

>On January 23, 2002 at 16:10:53, William Penn wrote:
>
>>On January 23, 2002 at 12:11:15, John Merlino wrote:
>>
>>>On January 23, 2002 at 05:50:54, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
>>>
>>>>Now that CB has integrated UCI with their latest patch, will The King in the
>>>>future support UCI, say from version 9000?
>>>>
>>>>Regards
>>>>Jonas
>>>
>>>There are currently no plans to support UCI with the next version of
>>>Chessmsater.
>>>
>>>jm
>>
>>Good for you. Keep it as simple as possible! The more unnecessary code/features
>>you can cut out (or prevent) the better...
>>WP
>
>Your opinion is generally in the minority, but we agree with you on this one.
>


Keeping out unnecessary GUI features is one thing.  Leaving out support for THE
best/newest standard for chess engines is another.  UCI is gaining tremendous
momentum -- even Chessbase has signed on.  Why be behind your competitors with a
feature that will you will ultimately implement anyway?



This page took 0.01 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.