Author: Steve Timson
Date: 19:30:33 08/24/02
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On August 24, 2002 at 21:43:14, Bas Hamstra wrote: >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. > Thanks I'll give them a look. >> 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. Well, you may find this crazy (I might soon too), but for now I am coding in Java. In order for a GUI to launch this, I need to be able to have the engine command be something like 'java Chester'. I could write a little piece of C code to spawn this process, but it would be nicer if I could just have the GUI launch java for me. Thanks, - Steve
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