Author: Bas Hamstra
Date: 18:43:14 08/24/02
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On August 24, 2002 at 20:54:02, Steve Timson wrote: >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? Arena is a free windows gui that should be able to do this. Chesspartner is a non-free gui, of which you can download a trial version. > 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. I am not sure if you can pass command line parameters, but I suspect yes. However are you sure you want to? You can create specific engine options very easily, that, once exported, the gui will support with a nice windows dialog box. You can specify default values for the options. I can't think of much that you could do with command line parameters that you couldn't do with these options. It is one of the nicest features of UCI. Best regards, Bas.
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