Author: Aaron Tay
Date: 06:42:33 02/04/02
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On February 04, 2002 at 09:41:41, Aaron Tay wrote: >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.. Just to add it was the last one that was not released.. >Hope this helps.. > >Aaron
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