Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:36:18 03/09/05
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On March 09, 2005 at 14:20:34, Andrew Williams 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. >> >>anthony > >I know nothing about this, as I've used only Xboard/WinBoard since I started PM. >Is there any Xboard-equivalent UCI interface on Linux or other platforms? Jose is written in Java, so it runs on everything. It's really nice, highly recommended. http://jose-chess.sourceforge.net/
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