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

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:02:55 03/09/05

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On March 09, 2005 at 14:55:22, Steffen Jakob wrote:

>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?

Not yet.

It is planned for the future.



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