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Subject: UCI & ICC

Author: Steve Timson

Date: 17:54:02 08/24/02


Hi,

  I have followed a bit of the discussion about UCI over the last couple days.
I am currently slowly working on a rewrite of my engine (Chester).  One of the
reasons for the rewrite is that my game state management code (among other
parts) was unpleasant.  I would say this was my fault, not the xboard
protocol's, but regardless it was something that always bugged me.  This time
around I am going slowly and doing things "right" the first time.  I am nearing
the time where I want to implement a protocol for connecting to a GUI.  The talk
about UCI was interesting for that reason.

  I haven't followed the discussion here much lately, and so my knowledge of UCI
support out there is limitted.  I will want to attach to ICC and play automated
games, potentially leaving the engine running for hours or days on end.  Is
there an interface out there that supports automated ICC play with a UCI engine?
 Does Fritz 7 or another product do this without using winboard?

  One other question as well -- in these implementations of UCI, can you pass
command line arguments to the engine?  I don't see anything about this in the
spec.

  Sorry if this stuff is common knowledge, I haven't been following things much
lately.  Thanks for the info.

 - Steve



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