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

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 23:31:50 01/26/02

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On January 26, 2002 at 14:19:51, Andrew Williams wrote:

>On January 26, 2002 at 11:23:03, Aaron Tay wrote:
>
>>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


>
>Is there a linux version of Arena?
>
>Andrew

Someone answered this before, but i can't find the post. From memory I think no.
It was mentioned Arena is done in Delphi and I have no idea if this is easy to
port for linux or not. Probably not.

Aaron



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