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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