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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