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

Author: Lance Perkins

Date: 16:17:11 03/15/05

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I agree that the engine info has to be in some data store that has simple query
facility. However, a database might be too heavy for this kind of application.
MS now has a free version of their SQL server, but its not light at all. Neither
is MySQL.

I am actually leaning towards an XML file. Or even simplier, why not an INI
file.

As for the format of the ID, the GUID concept is a nice idea.

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On March 15, 2005 at 14:10:14, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On March 15, 2005 at 12:53:43, Lance Perkins wrote:
>
>>One quick solution to the character intrepretation would be to use Unicode. But
>>we still have the language translation problem.
>
>If you store the information in a database, and if the chess engine is looking
>for an integral unique ID rather than a text string to parse, then you can
>easily make the interface speak any language you choose by simply changing the
>descriptions and also the database table code page.
>
>As long as the ID does not change, then the meaning does not change.



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