Author: Thomas Mayer
Date: 05:06:34 03/10/05
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Hallo Reinhard, >> The user can switch between normal chess and Chess960 (FRC) without >> changing the engine configuration. >> ... > gerade was Chess960 angeht, ist das Winboard Protokoll eine Katastrophe. > Nicht nur, dass unterschiedliche Kodierungen für Rochadezüge verlangt It does not get true the more often you tell this, Reinhard. You can use always "O-O" and "O-O-O" in Winboard for castling. Not necessary to differentiate here... I know that you do not like the variant system in WinBoard -> Anyway I do not see it as a real problem. > Alle hierzu notwendigen Informationen können komplett über einen > initiierenden FEN-String abgedeckt werden. WinBoard supports via ICS way more variants then any other protocol... e.g. losers chess, crazyhouse, bughouse etc. -> You can not pass that via a FEN string. Of course you are right in case of FRC and shuffle chess -> and it would be a nice addition to the WinBoard protocol once in the future because your addition to the FEN-standard is really nice and easy. But for other chess variants the variant command in WinBoard is definitely something good to have. > Hierzu sollte es entsprechende Mechanismen geben, wie unter UCI z.B. allein > durch eine Bereitstellung einer Option mit dem Namen "FRC". This is also part of the WinBoard protocol... The engine can tell the GUI which variants it can play. Also FRC is still not really part of the UCI-standard -> but there is some hope - Stefan told me that the ShredderClassic GUI will be FRC ready until Mainz... Anyway, maybe my own GUI will be until then also FRC ready. Is there a page at your homepage where you exactly explain your additions to the FEN -> IMO this is some kind of standard and when I will implement this I will of course use what is already there instead of creating a new standard. Greets, Thomas > P.S.: Deutsch ist die in den rein europäischen Ländern am meisten gesprochene > Muttersprache. Dies stellt für mich eher eine mehrheitsfähige Lösung dar, als > der (von der Mehrheit offenbar tolerierte) Gebrauch kryptischer Kürzel und > Vokabeln, die nur den Zweck haben können, Nicht-Angelsachsen zu vergraulen. This is a point of view... But I do not want to get the english speaking people here out of the discussion... and it is somehow common sense that most understand and write english. Anyway there is IMO nothing bad with writing german as well -> As I would also tolerate french, spanish, portuguese, indian, italian or chinese or whatever... But then I would be out of discussion...
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