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Subject: Re: Is it time for the Winboard Protocol to go the way of the Dodo?

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 10:57:23 03/09/05

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On March 09, 2005 at 13:30:45, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On March 09, 2005 at 12:13:26, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>
>>After the post on how Daniel Mehrmann is still working on XBoard/Winboard, I
>>immediately starting thinking of ways to waste his time.  My question is: Does
>>Winboard really have any advantages over UCI any more?
>>
>>The Anthony WB/UCI comparison:
>>
>>+UCI:
>>
>>Interface is cleaner & easier to implement, not being based on the crappy GNU
>>chess protocol.
>>
>>Supports Multiple PVs, refutations, etc.
>>
>>Graphical configuration of engines.
>>
>>+WinBoard:
>>
>>Can operate in text mode.
>>
>>And this comparison is (obviously) quite favorable to UCI, although I may have
>>missed things.  Anyway, I'd be willing to help Daniel out over the next few
>>weeks if it meant a new version of Xboard with UCI support, and I'm guessing
>>there would be a few other people willing to help out as well.
>
>Both interfaces are flawed.
>
>I would use a database, it makes a lot more sense than string messages.

This makes no sense to me; how on earth would you do it?

>Biggest problem with UCI -- tranferring the entire move list for every move.
>That is absurd.

Who cares?  Engines parse it all just fine.

anthony



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