Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 12:59:48 03/09/05
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On March 09, 2005 at 13:54:21, Russell Reagan wrote: >Doesn't support learning. Complete bull! You can't learn if your engine depends on knowing when the game has ended for learning. That something *entirely* different. >Only supports pondering in one way. Again, you can work around it, but again, >it's a pain in the ass. No argument about that. (Not that I care) >Assumes you can trust the GUI, which so far has apparently been too difficult >for most GUI creators. Can't trust any ChessBase GUI (hash table memory bug), >can't trust Arena (UCI engine will randomly quit responding when playing on ICS, >Arena will randomly crash while playing a computer match, and so on). I can >trust the Winboard GUI. If Winboard gets UCI support, then maybe this drawback >will go away. This is an implementation issue and not a protocol problem. I can make buggy xboard interfaces, too. >Can't kibitz on ICS. Maybe the GUI that we can't trust will support some hack >work around method, or maybe not. If Winboard with UCI support would still allow >some Winboard commands like "tellics", this drawback would go away. info string kibitz or info string tellics Would be cool. -- GCP
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