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Subject: Re: UCI and Winboard Engines...

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 05:20:27 02/04/02

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On February 04, 2002 at 08:00:47, Jason Williamson wrote:

>Just curious as to why so few engines have implemented the UCI interface, is it
>quite difficult to do?

Support the UCI protocol? Mainly because there wasn't demand for that probably.
Before Fritz 7 and now Arena, very few users had UCI capable interfaces, except
the Chess assistant 6 people and the few owners of Shredder 5. Hardly worth the
borther IMHO.

No idea how difficult it is, but i suppose it would depend on the indidvual
program..

I predict a lot more to come..But I doubt all or even 50% of winboard engines
will start to support UCI..

>Yace and Pharaon seems to do it quite well.

Pharaon was actually meant to be sold by Gambitsoft, together with other UCI
engines (anmon, etc) , but the project did not take off.. In fact, most of the
UCI versions you see floating around now, are mostly associated with this
project..

Without this (failed) project by gambitsoft, you would probably see even fewer
UCI engines now ..

As for Yace and Pepito, all i can say is Dieter Bursserner seems to be a very
gifted programmer that programs at the speed of light.

Aaron








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