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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 17:04:43 01/25/02

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On January 25, 2002 at 17:49:11, Dann Corbit wrote:

yes winboard is fine to start with. it is however clear
there is a winboard++ set needed to improve winboard.

also some stupid things like control-c each move, that
must be thrown out of the normal winboard too. only gnuchess
needs it, but a 1 minute hack of gnuchess fixes that.

(the old gnuchess i mean, not the bitboard one).

>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.



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