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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:51:25 01/24/02

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On January 23, 2002 at 16:45:58, Roy Eassa wrote:

>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?


Maybe because the winboard protocol is just as good or better?  And it is a
_lot_ older...



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