Author: Stan Arts
Date: 06:56:33 12/15/04
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Hi Reinhard, Ah I see. Well, both Uci and Winboard have been aimed at standart chess, and in that sence having a clear protocol without much extra's is good. Besides variants, people can think of infinitly more features, and that wouldn't always help the protocol be popular. But indeed it would be interesting to have some sort of protocol that can describe many variants. With chess-variants, I guess a lot of people are stopped at writing a chess- variantprogram, because there are no such protocols, so it's difficult to create interest for it, as well as having some competition for the programmer itself. (If I write a program for some exotic variant, it's lickely to be the only program capable of playing it. (The same is also true for other boardgames, outside the common chess checkers etc.) ) But Smirf might indeed help make the variants you mentioned more popular. For instance it helps open competition.(protocol or not) And it sounds interesting! Goodluck! Stan
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