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Subject: Re: Chessbase UCI Interface -- a naive question

Author: Kolss

Date: 09:16:42 10/13/05

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On October 13, 2005 at 12:08:49, Mike Hood wrote:

>There have been complaints about Chessbase's UCI (and Winboard) adaptors for a
>long time. Forgive me if I'm being stupid, but why doesn't someone just sit down
>and write a new adaptor than can be used to replace the current UCI.dll (Fritz
>8) or UCINet.dll (Fritz 9)? And if Chessbase objects to the distribution of a
>freeware UCI adaptor, sell it to them.


Hi,

The problem is that no one - except, of course, a few Chessbase guys - knows the
Fritz interface. You can only write an adapter if you know *both* sides. The
current one takes input in "UCI format" and converts it into "Chessbase format",
whatever that is exactly. However, there seem to be some problems with it - we
("Ikarus team") have never really tested it properly though...
I hope this is more clarification than confusion!

Best regards - Munjong.



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