Author: Roman Hartmann
Date: 06:01:55 09/05/05
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On September 05, 2005 at 08:25:23, David Mitchell wrote: >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. I can assure you there is nothing secret in the UCI protocol but the very first UCI-implementation in Fritz was a bit buggy. I guess that wasn't done on purpose though. The UCI support is probably considered as an "add-on" by Chessbase and doesn't have a very high priority if it comes to fixing bugs. >(excuse me, I should say "perform better"?) There were some well known bugs in the UCI-support of Fritz and it took Chessbase quite some time to fix that for some reason. Now, finally, it seems to work. Roman >Dave
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