Author: Lex Loep
Date: 22:47:24 06/15/05
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On June 15, 2005 at 17:28:06, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >Lex and Odd Gunnar, > >very nice, when you have such a feature in the WB interface. You might consider, >to get it into the WB-Protocol. Otherwise, we might see different solutions >soon. It should be added to the protocol by the feature mechanism. It should be >well defined, when the new commands are allowed (for example only in force mode >- but one would need to think well about this). The setvar / getvar mechanism is in rebel for years. Full specifications can be found here: http://www.lokasoft.nl/rebel_12_winboard_extensions > >I prefer the UCI searchmoves semantics - no need for a positive and negative >list. Easier to implement for anybody, probably also easier to define it well. > >Of course, when you want to operate WB-engine manually, the positive and >negative list will have huge advantages. But for a protocol, that is aimed for >GUI operation, this does not count IMHO. Probably only engine authors operate >manually - they can implement what they want anyway for the console mode. A real >user that wants to use such a feature would need, to read some documentation. No >big problem, I think. In Yace I have some sort of interactive mode, to enable >and disable root moves for analysis/search. > The single list would be sufficient and once integrated, the gui only sends the positive list. The two lists are just a quick way to get it in the engine properties. Lex >Regards, >Dieter
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