Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:13:20 03/09/05
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On March 09, 2005 at 13:57:23, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >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? Select, insert and update. An ODBC or OLEDB or JDBC connection. >>Biggest problem with UCI -- tranferring the entire move list for every move. >>That is absurd. > >Who cares? Engines parse it all just fine. And the joy that each and every engine writer has in creating his own interface(s) is not to be forgotten.
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