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

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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