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Subject: Re: Crafty is playing and definitively losing!????

Author: Thomas Mayer

Date: 10:01:29 08/16/05

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Hi Tord,

On August 16, 2005 at 09:55:24, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On August 16, 2005 at 09:48:45, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>> some interfaces know to translate the score to score from white point of
>> view but when Movei is running under winboard it gives score from it's
>> point of view and not from white's point of view and I see no good reason
>> to change it.

> I think this is a design mistake in the xboard protocol.  The protocol
> *should* specify a sign convention for the score.  It is confusing when the
> displayed scores must be interpreted differently depending on the engine.

good point... I think this should be also standarized in WB Prot III -> IMO it's
a good idea that the engine sends the score out of it's point of view... if that
is standard any GUI can implement an option to show it like the user wants...
afaik in every protocol I know the score is shown from the point of view of the
engine and the GUI decides then what to do with it... (MCS, UCI, ChessBase
native - there I was only told that it is so)

Greets, Thomas



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