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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: 13:02:31 03/09/05

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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.

The original UCI was clean. The "new" UCI with abominations such as "ucinewgame"
is horrible. I would say that UCI is going the way of the dodo, too, if this
kind of "improvements" continues.

--
GCP



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