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Subject: Re: Extension of the UCI protocol

Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Date: 11:43:28 04/17/04

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This is why we have added "ucinewgame".
Please see my other posting in this thread.

Stefan



On April 17, 2004 at 09:43:22, Mridul Muralidharan wrote:

>Hi ,
>
>  Some interesting and quiet useful additions to UCI : and the clarifications
>help a lot.
>Thanks for the same.
>
>I have one proposal - I think something similar was raised below too ...
>
>Something similar to the "result" command in xboard.
>This will not only help in learning - but can also be used by programs to clear
>caches , whatever minimal state management the engine has to do ...
>
>I understand that the basic idea of UCI is to make engines as stateless as
>possible , and you mentioned that learning should be a GUI function -
>But, considering that you have "ownbook" - should not the protocol be complete
>so that complete handling of book maybe handled by engine ?
>Also , I positional learning which is not directly related to book learning -
>that will also require a gameend/result sort of command ....
>
>Also , I prefer clearing caches/state tables at end of game rather than begining
>of a game (unless it was not cleared earlier so that I will have to clear them :
>saves me some time ....)
>
>Thanks
>Mridul



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