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Subject: Re: Why cant Zappa, Diep etc implement as Shredder did? Fritz too ftm.

Author: Matthew Hull

Date: 10:31:26 09/06/05

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On September 06, 2005 at 13:09:59, Richard Sutherland wrote:

>I don't want to get drawn into the enormously long Zappa gui debate, but I was
>wondering why Zappa, Diep, Sjeng and even Fritz for that matter, cant implement
>as Shredder did in it's latest incarnation? That is, produce your own GUI, which
>is the absolute strongest version, complete with auto232


No programmer should be compelled to write to a garbage interface like auto232.


>support, and then also
>release a UCI


The same goes for the "bad and wrong" UCI interface.

http://jargon.watson-net.com/jargon.asp?w=Bad+and+Wrong



>version with the disclaimber that it might not be as strong as the
>GUI version, if run under another GUI. Don't hobble the UCI version, just
>release it as an optional program with the new GUI version and the disclaimer.
>That way, everybody is happy and people like me, who enjoy playing mini
>tournaments under the CB interface, and also enjoy playing two enhines against
>each other on different PC's, can have the best of both worlds!!!



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