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Subject: Re: UCI versus Winboard

Author: José Carlos

Date: 04:13:00 08/21/02

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On August 21, 2002 at 07:07:12, Steve Maughan wrote:

>Russell,
>
>>>Remember Shredder has won many
>>>tournaments / World championships using the UCI protocol -so it cannot hinder
>>>you too much
>>
>>That doesn't mean anything at all. They (being the authors of Shredder AND the
>>UCI protocol) wouldn't make the protocol in a way that hindered Shredder now
>>would they?
>
>Well it *does* mean that UCI doesn't necessarily cripple a program and a World
>Class program can be written using the protocol.

  It doesn't cripple, it _limits_ your options. If it had an option called "GUI
suggestion" and it was Shredder who makes the suggestion, and you were _forced_
to use it every 5 moves, it still wouldn't bother Shredder, but it'd bother me a
lot. Get the difference? I don't want the GUI to force me to do things like
Shredder does.

  José C.


>>>in the
>>>future the amateurs will start to design their engines with UCI in mind.
>>
>>They have a long way to go to catch up with Winboard...
>
>Not sure what you mean by this - Winboard is a GUI and I was refering to the
>engines.
>
>Regards,
>
>Steve



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