Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 13:36:30 03/10/05
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On March 10, 2005 at 09:24:14, Andrew Williams wrote: >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 I would like to second that. It is depressing if the suggestion is that all (hobby) chess programmers should have to agree to the MS licence and fund their 'business' tactics - or write their own GUI. Frank
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