Author: Reinhard Scharnagl
Date: 05:44:18 12/15/04
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On December 15, 2004 at 07:59:58, Stan Arts wrote: >> >>well, I feel discriminated. >> >>Writing an engine which is able to play 8x8 and 10x8 based chess variants I had >>enough to do to write an own GUI using an own protocol. Smirf 's engine is not >>supported by Winboard or UCI, even when playing conventional chess. >> >>Reinhard. > >Hi Reinhard, > >I've my own gui too.. And I think there are many engines/programs with an own >Gui. It's really not such a big deal to make a textversion of your chess- >program then, you just leave away your gui.. :) And use standart input/output >for communication, and adjust a few commands. (in the case of the winboard- >protocol.) >Also for playing games (as at CCT) with the winboardprotocol, you don't really >need to support many commands. I suspect you'll have a winboard-compatible >version ready in an hour/few hours work, and you've time till February. So no >need to feel discriminated. Hi Stan, may be I have not explained well. The point is not that it would be more work to write e.g. an additional engine to UCI converter. It is more that the idea of creating an engine which simultaneously supports 8x8 chess, 10x8 Capablanca, Janus, 8x8 FRC and 10x8 CRC is to make that variants more attractive. I am about to establish a new matching TMCI protocol, because neither UCI nor Winboard seems to be willing or able to support at least FRC correctly. When I would write an TMCI to UCI adapter, this would even more fix the status quo of UCI, which is not satisfying at all. When UCI or Winboard would be changing to also support that variants in a correct way, then I for sure will be willing to write a converter, even when 10x8 variants would not yet been supported. But now it would be very counter productive to supply such a tool. Reinhard. >Actually this morning I added kibitzing to Neurosis, because of reading this >CCC threat, and will sign up to CCT7 in the weekend. (I don't know what >computer I will be able to have connected to the internet that long yet.) >I've started with a total rewrite of Neurosis, 2.0, but that won't be upto >strength before February I think, so I will play with version "1.82". > >Greetings >Stan
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