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Subject: Re: I agree!!

Author: Matthew White

Date: 12:43:47 07/23/03

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On July 23, 2003 at 15:29:01, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On July 23, 2003 at 14:51:24, Steve Maughan wrote:
>
>>Tord & Ed,
>>
>>>But the lazy programmers are precisely the ones who should prefer the UCI
>>>protocol.  I have implemented both protocols in my program during the last
>>>month, and the UCI protocol was by far the easiest one!
>>
>>I agree with Tord.  I've implemented Winboard and UCI in Monarch and UCI is
>>*FAR* easier to implement.  I would suggest that it would take no more than 4
>>hours to implement UCI in Rebel.  I think Bas Hamstra has also made similar
>>comments.
>
>I should perhaps also add that I implemented UCI mostly without being able
>to test it myself.  I do all development in MacOS X and Linux, and have no
>UCI-compatible GUI in which I could test UCI mode.  I had to rely on
>some very helpful beta testers in order to get bug reports and solve
>UCI-related problems.  Despite this, UCI mode was easier to implement than
>xboard mode.
>
>Tord

Have you tried Knights in Linux? It works pretty well... You have to have Kde 3,
IIRC, but it might come in handy for your testing :). You can get it here:
http://knights.sourceforge.net/

Matt



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