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Subject: Re: Extensible Chess Interface (XCI) : updated draft

Author: Tim Foden

Date: 12:56:46 03/14/05

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On March 14, 2005 at 12:45:22, Michael Yee wrote:

>(2) New commands from GUI to engine : getstartpos, getmovelist, getresult
>
>This enables the protocol to be truly extensible since variants that aren't
>officially supported by the GUI can still be supported by letting one engine be
>the "referee" or "arbiter".

Maybe it would be a good idea to:

1) allow an extra third engine as a referee.  This could be useful in the case
of two engines where you trust neither to be a referee.  A tried and trusted
third could be used in this job.

2) formalise what is required of a "referee" only.  This would allow a simple
"referee engine" to be written, to perform arbritration only.

Cheers, Tim.

• Re: Extensible Chess Interface (XCI) : updated draft Reinhard Scharnagl 13:59:39 03/14/05
• Re: Extensible Chess Interface (XCI) : updated draft Dann Corbit 13:09:45 03/14/05

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