Contents. Interface Most chess engines do not have their own (GUI) but are rather that communicate with a GUI such as ,WinBoard or via a standard protocol.
Protocols The command line interface of became the initial de facto standard, called the and first supported. When XBoard was ported to the Windows operating system as WinBoard this protocol was popularly renamed to 'WinBoard Protocol'. The WinBoard Protocol was itself upgraded and the two versions of the protocols are referred to as: 'WinBoard Protocol 1' (original version) and 'WinBoard Protocol 2' (newer version). There is another protocol, the. Some engines support both major protocols, and each protocol has its supporters.
Engines, Author Page. 13, SlowChess, Jonathan Kreuzer, USA, 0,59, opening book included, 2650, BlitzWV-2.1 2.960e, 12.03.13. SparkChess is a game of chess that everyone can enjoy! The SparkChess AI chess engine features NegaMax, Alpha-Beta Pruning, Aspiration Window, Iterative Deepening, Time Management, Principal Variation, Quiescence, Transposition Tables, History Heuristics, Null moves, Eval Pruning, Killer Moves, Late Moves Reduction, Razoring, Opening Books.
The Winboard Protocol is more popular but many chess engine developers feel that the Universal Chess Interface is easier to implement. Some interface programs, such as Arena, support both protocols whereas others, such as WinBoard, support only one and depend on subsidiary interpretors, such as, to translate.
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Strategic Test Suite. taken from. Computer Chess Rating List. 05 May 2010. Retrieved 05 May 2011.
External links. A general (learning) purpose Chess Engine's Polyglot Opening Book for WinBoard GUI.