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

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 11:55:22 03/09/05

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On March 09, 2005 at 14:36:18, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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/

Is it possible to run engines at chess servers with this GUI?

Greetings,
Steffen.



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