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Subject: Re: Is UCI a politically viable alternative to Winboard?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:49:11 01/25/02

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On January 25, 2002 at 17:37:15, Mike Hood wrote:

>From all that I've read about UCI, it seems to have several technical advantages
>over Winboard.

Name one.

>But, as we all know, the best product doesn't always succeed.
>
>There will only be large support among chess engine programmers if there is a
>high quality free GUI available. (If UCI interpreatation remains proprietary to
>Chessbase it will kill the protocol before it even takes off). Is there a
>comparable freeware equivalent of the Winboard program (WinUCI)? If not, are
>there any plans to create one?

Why not trash UCI and all the other pretender interfaces, and go with the open,
well adopted, flexible specification:
Winboard.

• Re: Is UCI a politically viable alternative? NO, and here's why. Roy Eassa 12:29:24 01/26/02
  • Re: Is UCI a politically viable alternative? NO, and here's why. Mogens Larsen 12:49:44 01/26/02
• Re: Is UCI a politically viable alternative to Winboard? Vincent Diepeveen 17:04:43 01/25/02
  • Re: Is UCI a politically viable alternative to Winboard? Tim Mann 16:03:51 01/30/02
• Re: Is UCI a politically viable alternative to Winboard? Mike Hood 15:52:57 01/25/02
  • Re: Is UCI a politically viable alternative to Winboard? Dann Corbit 16:08:55 01/25/02
    • Re: Is UCI a politically viable alternative to Winboard? Robin Smith 23:46:32 01/25/02
      • Re: Is UCI a politically viable alternative to Winboard? Dann Corbit 11:22:54 01/26/02
• Re: Is UCI a politically viable alternative to Winboard? Miguel A. Ballicora 15:21:35 01/25/02
• Re: Is UCI a politically viable alternative to Winboard? Walter Eigenmann 15:17:40 01/25/02
  • Re: Is UCI a politically viable alternative to Winboard? Thomas Mayer 22:27:58 01/25/02
    • Re: Is UCI a politically viable alternative to Winboard? Torstein Hall 17:58:59 01/26/02
    • Re: Is UCI a politically viable alternative to Winboard? Roy Eassa 12:36:22 01/26/02
    • Re: Is UCI a politically viable alternative to Winboard? Mogens Larsen 06:35:54 01/26/02
  • Re: Is UCI a politically viable alternative to Winboard? Peter Berger 15:39:02 01/25/02
    • Re: Is UCI a politically viable alternative to Winboard? Aaron Tay 08:28:17 01/26/02
  • Re: Is UCI a politically viable alternative to Winboard? Miguel A. Ballicora 15:28:03 01/25/02
  • Re: Is UCI a politically viable alternative to Winboard? Dann Corbit 15:25:10 01/25/02
    • Re: Is UCI a politically viable alternative to Winboard? Ingo Bauer 20:43:26 01/25/02
      • Re: Is UCI a politically viable alternative to Winboard? Martin Schubert 02:05:06 01/26/02

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