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Subject: Re: UCI and Winboard Engines...

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 06:41:41 02/04/02

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On February 04, 2002 at 09:08:49, Jason Williamson wrote:

>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..
>
>And what about the other engines in the Gabitsoft package that died?  Anyone
>know if they will be released in some form or other (Like Patzer, Capture and
>Lampchop...)

You are mistaken , that was actually released.

Winboard Edition I - Gandalf sold as winboard engine

Winboard Edition II - Lampchop, Patzer, Capture  released as UCI and Winboard
engine. Gandalf released only as UCI engine

WInboard Edition III - I understand it was mostly UCI engines like Pharaon,anmon
, Nejemet etc..

Hope this helps..

Aaron






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