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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