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

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 08:23:03 01/26/02

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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. 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?

Look for Arena now in beta-testing.

Aaron



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