Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 06:24:14 03/10/05
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On March 10, 2005 at 08:29:02, Vasik Rajlich wrote: >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. >> >>Supports Multiple PVs, refutations, etc. >> >>Graphical configuration of engines. >> >>+WinBoard: >> >>Can operate in text mode. >> >>And this comparison is (obviously) quite favorable to UCI, although I may have >>missed things. Anyway, I'd be willing to help Daniel out over the next few >>weeks if it meant a new version of Xboard with UCI support, and I'm guessing >>there would be a few other people willing to help out as well. >> >>anthony > >The current situation is quite ok - every author implements the protocol he >prefers, and adapters exist to make sure that every engine runs in every GUI. >(Except Fritz & Junior -- gggrrrr :)). > >Personally, I'm quite sure that UCI support requires less code and less of a >mess in your engine - but it's really a minor issue. It was quite easy for me to >decide for UCI. > >As for GUIs - if you haven't already done so, I'd suggest you at least try the >professional GUIs. I doubt it's worth it to try to get winboard caught up .. > >Vas Lots of people develop on Linux. I'm not going to suddenly start using Windows to do chess programming when I use Linux for everything else. Andrew
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