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Subject: Re: UCI and Winboard Engines...

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 05:54:54 02/04/02

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On February 04, 2002 at 08:20:27, Aaron Tay wrote:

>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

I didn't know that the speed of one's programming determined how gifted one is.
Well, you live and learn.

/David



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