Author: Mike Hood
Date: 08:41:25 06/10/03
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On June 10, 2003 at 10:21:50, Günther Simon wrote: >On June 10, 2003 at 08:31:44, Mike Hood wrote: > >>Do you all remember Chessbase's Winboard adapter? It was nice to use it to run >>Winboard engines in the Fritz GUI, but the sloppy implementation made more >>friends than enemies, and Chessbase has now withdrawn support for it. But why >>don't we see this as an opportunity? If Chessbase no longer offers a Winboard >>adapter, why doesn't some non-Chessbase person write a new adapter instead of >>leaving users to fiddle around with Winboard-UCI converters? Someone well >>acquainted with both the Winboard and Chessbase protocols. There are a few >>programmers who fit the description... any volunteers? > >How? The CB protocol is not open, therefore we 'only' have Odd Gunnars >fine WB2UCI adapter (UCI is a free protocol...). >AFAIK even the WB programmers, who have a CB native for free download, >dont know the CB protocol as they send their program to CB and CB transforms >them into CB Natives. (or they are obliged not to publish the protocol) > >Regards, >Günther I know the Chessbase protocol isn't public knowledge, but there are at least a dozen programmers who have written Chessbase engines, and several of them use this forum. They're the ones that my post was addressed to.
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