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Subject: Re: UCI versus Winboard

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 03:26:57 08/21/02

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On August 21, 2002 at 06:11:12, Joachim Rang wrote:

>On August 21, 2002 at 05:03:29, Bas Hamstra wrote:
>
>>You make this sound so dramatic "gui takes total control". It just takes a tiny
>>bit more control than Winboard. It just tells the engine when to ponder. In
>>practice there is no difference. The _engine_ provides the pondermove, the gui
>>_will_ tell it to ponder ASAP, and the _engine_ decides how long it will think.
>>
>>
>>Best regards,
>>Bas.
>
>There is at least one disadvantage of pondering_control: As Stefan Zipproth
>wrote, in UCI he can't implement his special style of pondering, because UCI
>only supports the classical way. In Winboard he can.

For reasons like that, I don't think UCI could be used as an automation protocol
in a serious event, unless it gets fixed of course.

Russell



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