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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: 05:12:21 03/10/05

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On March 10, 2005 at 06:58:26, Thomas Mayer wrote:

>Also I still think that opening book,
>book learning etc. should be part of the engine and not part of the GUI... Book
>functions are not trivial and when I use a GUI and it's book functions I use the
>efforts of someone else.

[...]

>IMO the WinBoard
>protocol is still the better one from the sight of the engine / programmer - it
>is simply more flexibel. For users it is different...

The last paragraph is critical. It applies to the book as well. For the user,
it's better to have the book in the GUI.

UCI was designed much more to provide users a good experience, than xboard was.

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GCP



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