Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

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

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 00:11:03 01/27/02

Go up one level in this thread


On January 27, 2002 at 02:31:50, Aaron Tay wrote:

>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.

AFAIK, Kylix (a Borland product) is port of Delphi to Linux. Maybe it is
not that difficult.

Miguel


>
>Aaron



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.