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

Author: David Mitchell

Date: 05:25:23 09/05/05

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On September 05, 2005 at 04:31:40, Roman Hartmann 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
>
>UCI is propritary? You must be kidding.
>Here you can find the description of the UCI procotol:
>http://www.shredderchess.de/download.html (it's text file). The ability to run
>RR or Swiss tours or create result tables should rather be managed by the GUI or
>maybe by a script but has nothing to do with an engine protocol.
>But no one stopps you to create a new open source GUI that offers all that
>functionality, of course :)
>
>Roman

I might be naieve here, Roman, but when GCP says UCI has "secret protocols", I
tend to believe it, in light of the other shennanigans that Chessbase has pulled
with UCI, to help their engines, cheat.

(excuse me, I should say "perform better"?)

Dave




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