Author: Steve Maughan
Date: 03:08:40 08/21/02
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Bas, I agree with you. For anyone who is starting to write a chess program I'd recommend UCI. When I wrote Monarch I started to implement Winboard and was half way through implementing it when I started tinkering with UCI. The complete UCI implementation took no more than one day to do (expluding MultiPV). I didn't get round to implementing all of the Winboard protocol (analysis & pondering). Since then I've re-written the protocol section for added stability and in doing so I've taken the Winboard code out - I'm not sure I'll add it back in as I do *all* of my testing using UCI. There is also an excellent range of GUIs that now support UCI (e.g. Fritz 7, Shredder 6, Hiarcs 8, Chess Tiger 14, Gandalf 5, Arena, Shredder 5 and Chess Assistant 6) and I have a huge range of possible opponents that are either ChessBase engines or other UCI engines. UCI is the future IMHO!! Regards, Steve
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