Author: Thomas Mayer
Date: 10:03:21 06/10/03
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Hi Brian, >>I'm assuming the CB natives have some advanatage over using UCI. >>If it didnt, then why borther with a CB native? just implement UCI. > I agree. Let ChessBase make their UCI adaptation work properly and the engine > author to write to UCI specs. There was potential to do this with their WB > adaptor but not knowing the details I can not say why it was dropped. I > think a reason for ChessBase protocol is so that some engines will not be > UCI or Winboard compatible. oh well, the adaptor story again - it seems that ChessBase is really not capable to built a good adapter to anything... Nearly each month a new bug in their UCI implementation is reported, I really can not understand why this happens - so for an engine programmer there is really the question why to bother with UCI when the CB GUI does not support it correctly ? -> besides Malin's WB2UCI-Adapter is really a nice tool, many engines work fine with it. About the CB-Protocol: Afaik it is even different from engine to engine so that you can't be sure that something that works with Fritz will also work with Junior etc. -> I would really like to see CB stopping this native crap and only publish UCI engines... They might not work correctly in their own GUI (oh, maybe they will spent THEN some work in the UCI adaptor) but extremely well everywhere else... with the CB-UCI-Adaptor it is somehow the same story then it was with the CB-WB-Adaptor: thousends of versions but none is working correctly. And all other GUIs have no real problem to implement it correctly. I have here ChessAssistant, ChessPartner, Arena etc. in mind... But well, such behaviour is not uncommen - market leaders, when the leadship is big enough, can always answer: "Who cares, profits are still going up - if one of the other companys will get a problem, we buy them..." (Sounds a bit like Microsoft... :) Greets, Thomas
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