Author: Pallav Nawani
Date: 12:26:00 07/30/04
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On July 30, 2004 at 14:42:23, Steven Edwards wrote: >Symbolic: Status report 2004.07.30 > >I spent some time reading the documents for the UCI (Universal Chess Interface, >an alternative to the xboard protocol). While it seems a bit cleaner than >xboard, I don't know of a free GUI implementation of UCI that will work both >with Mac OS X and Linux. Also, it uses coordinate move notation instead of SAN, >and this seems like a ten year step backward. That might be your opinion. IMHO it is pointless to use anything else when communicating between two software. Coordinate notation has the advantage that it is not ambiguous, unlike SAN. In any case, for the purposes of a protocol, it is quite sufficient, and that is what is required. Nothing less, nothing more. But I'm not sure what is needed in >the file passed to xboard with the icslogon option. I assume that the first >line is Symbolic's ICC ID and the second is its password. But, what else should >appear in the logon file for totally automated play? Also, for initial testing, >I'd like to have the program accept only blitz games. Another issue is the use >of an icshelper routine like timestamp or timeseal; are these absolutely >required? This is the batch file I use to play Nawtarlal on FICS, hope it helps: C: cd "\Program Files\WinBoard\" WinBoard -zp -zadj -zab -ics -icshost freechess.org -fd "C:\Program Files\WinBoard\Natwarlal" -fcp natwarlal -icshelper timeseal -zippyGameEnd="\nseek 5 0\nseek 2 12\nseek 5 6\n" -zippyGameStart="say This is an automated computer.\n" -zippyMaxGames 3 -sgf icsgames.pgn -autoflag with this command line, xboard will play automated on FICS, autoseeking, autoaccepting and autoplaying games, with the time controls 5 0, 2 12, and 5 6 It will also autoflag the opponent if he runs out of time, and all the games are saved in the file icsgames.pgn Regards, Pallav
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