Author: Peter Fendrich
Date: 12:17:17 04/16/04
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On April 16, 2004 at 12:26:11, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote: > >Hello Peter, > > >On April 16, 2004 at 12:14:37, Peter Schäfer wrote: >> >>Hello Stefan, >> >>Is there a chance that we will see further improvements to the UCI protocol ? > > >Yes, there will be further improvements, but we have just released a new version >so don't expect it to happen next week. > > >>I guess these issues have been discussed before a lot, just to mention a few: >> >>- let the engine decide about resignation and draw. >> This is even more interesting if the engine can take the opponent's ELO >> into account (e.g. don't offer draws to weak opponents). > > >We have discussed this in Paderborn and we sort of agreed that this would wreck >the stateless design of the protocol. We integrated AnalysisMode and ucinewgame >but we didn't want to go any further. Why not another info tags: "resign" meaning "I want to resign" and "draw" meaning "I want a draw". Then it's up to the GUI (the user) to handle it as desired. /Peter > >>- support for ICS commands like tell, whisper, etc. > > >This should be handled by the GUI. > > >>I would like to propose these ideas: >> >>- "info bookmove": output information about available book moves during the >> opening, which might be interesting for engines that have their own book >> (see also the XBoard command "bk") > > >Yes, this might be useful. > > >>- "option type file" for options that contain files or paths (e.g. NalimovePath) >> the GUI could display a button with a file chooser dialog, instead of a plain >> text input field > > >This was also suggested but we thought that the string command will do. > >Stefan
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