Author: Mike Hood
Date: 09:35:36 10/13/05
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On October 13, 2005 at 12:16:42, Kolss wrote:
>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.
I suspected something like this when I posted my message. (Maybe I'm not as
naive as I pretend to be). The best candidates for writing a new UCI-Chessbase
adaptor would be someone who has already written a Chessbase-compatible engine,
and there are a few some people who use this forum.
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