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Subject: Re: Extension of the UCI protocol

Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Date: 11:09:18 04/17/04

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On April 16, 2004 at 14:05:28, Peter Schäfer wrote:

>On April 16, 2004 at 12:26:11, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:
>
>
>>>- 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.
>
>I don't think that it must break the design.
>One could interpret draw offers (or resignations) as mere hints to the GUI.
>
>After the engine has indicated that it would like to resign/accept/offer draw,
>it still must keep on responding (just as if nothing had happened).
>The GUI can stay in complete control and decide when the game is actually
>finished.


Please see my other posting in this thread concerning this.

Stefan



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