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Subject: Re: Time for a New Interface for CC engines?

Author: Henrik Dinesen

Date: 01:11:35 09/05/05

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On September 05, 2005 at 03:48:12, David Mitchell wrote:

>If Winboard has become less desireable, and UCI is proprietary and poorly
>implemented (cough, cough), perhaps it's time to work on a new open source
>interface that has the features we want, including the ability to run RR and/or
>Swiss tournaments, and of course, make up the tables of the results.
>
>If a few commercial engines would back this standard with their programs, it
>would go a long way toward making it standardized, and popular.
>
>Dave

Yes, absolutely. Unfortunately it would be "buggy", and "favourising" certain
engines etc. So no one would trust it either.
This apart from the trouble convincing all the commercials to support the idea.

Henrik



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