Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 22:05:22 02/14/02
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On February 14, 2002 at 23:14:00, Steve Maughan wrote: >Miguel, > >>>3. Easy to do pondering i.e. no take back of moves >> >>Much more difficult to be creative regarding pondering too. > >True - but how many engines are actually creative ?? - few I would say. Still I I hope mine will at one point. At least I will try some ideas. What is the point to do everything like the majority? It takes some fun out of this. >would like to be able to Ponder a null move which could give this flexibility. >This could be added by allowing "bestmove xxxx ponder" i.e. no ponder move > >>>5. Can implement your own opening book but don't need to - so once you have >>>your engine working with the protocol you can play against other engines >>>using a GUI specific opening book. >> >>But you have no control over that. > >Yes you do. You can set the OwnBook variable and you have full control. Then the advantage of UCI is gone. I said before that I like winboard better and you asked why. For my engine and what I want to do, UCI has no advantage and two big problems. No learning and no control over pondering. Other people might do things that are compatible with UCI and enjoy it. That's good, but it is not my case. over pondering. > >Regards, > >Steve
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