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Subject: Re: Bob hates UCI ! (n/t)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:45:00 02/24/05

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On February 24, 2005 at 05:10:23, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On February 24, 2005 at 05:02:37, Tony Werten wrote:
>
>>I see no logical reason why an interface needs to know the move I'm going to
>>ponder on. It's none of its bussiness. What does it need it for ?
>
>For example, to show it to the user, together with the PVs. I as a user want to
>see PVs of both opponents, when I watch an engine game.

Give me a window I can send text to.  "telluser" command in winboard, as an
example.  Now I can display things as I want to display them, not format them to
some specification for a particular GUI...

>
>For example, to show it later in the PGN.

Ah yes, the ChessBase fiasco.  :)

unreadable PGN files...

>
>For example, to make the UCI protocol possible. Some seem not to like it - they
>will use other things. Others do like it (including many users, who prefer not
>to learn command line arguments or ini fily synthax for many engines). Of course
>you could argue, that this does not need the UCI way of pondering. But
>practically, you have no alternative to UCI, if you want this.
>
>Regards,
>Dieter



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