Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:32:51 09/06/05
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On September 06, 2005 at 16:45:20, Marc Lacrosse wrote: >On September 06, 2005 at 15:54:57, Dann Corbit wrote: > > >>Xboard is the best protocol for play, I think, but it is useless for >>configuration. >> >>UCI is far better for that. >> >>I would like to see the two protocols merged. > >With both Wb2UCI (thanks Odd Gunnar) and Polyglot (thanks Fabien) we have them >merged. Today. NOthing close to that. You want to set up your Winboard for 256 MB hash and to find the Nalimov tablebase files on e:/nalimov;f:/nalimov-overflow How will Wb2UCI or Polglot help at all? I do not want to edit any ini files. >Just a little rough on the edges... > >An example: combining TheKing chessmaster engine with WB2uci and PG you can >adjust any parameter and have it play under WB with your own book choice. >This is impossible in any other modern GUI or configuration without horribly >painful manoeuvers. > >If we could get WB2UCI + Polyglot working in a little more user-friendly >interface, than we would have the perfect intermediate solution between any >engine and any GUI. > >... at the exception of the deliberately schizophrenic chessbase engines, but >this is another story, and we can begin to hope that their hegemonic story is >beginning to go to its lonely end. The way to fix it is to provide a comprehensive single protocol that has all the strengths of both protocols and none of the weaknesses.
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