Author: David Mitchell
Date: 05:22:18 09/05/05
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On September 05, 2005 at 04:11:35, Henrik Dinesen wrote: >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 Of course, like most software packages, it would have SOME bugs, but I'm sure that can be managed - perhaps much better than the serious "bugs", in UCI which GCP and others have brought up. Designed from the ground up to be "secure and fair", I don't see why it would have to favor any engine, or program. It should provide all the CC programs with a lot of cost savings if it was adopted - less work for them to do. And all the authors would know that know "cpu hogging", "repeating time requests", resetting hash or book settings, etc., would be allowed. Any such "tinkering" from the other program, and it would simply forfeit that game. So if they want to play, they have to play fair. Dave Dave
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