NAME¶
eleeye_engine - a chess program engine to communicate with its user
interface
SYNOPSIS¶
eleeye_engine is a command-line client for UCCI (based on UCI) protocol. It
provides full support of basic UCI command, such as position, go, banmoves or
bestmove and much more.
DESCRIPTION¶
The Universal Chess Interface (
UCI) is an open communication protocol
that enables a chess program engine to communicate with its user interface.
It was designed and released by Rudolf Huber and Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, the author
of Shredder, in November 2000, and can be seen as a rival to the older
XBoard/WinBoard Communication protocol. Like the latter, it is free to use
without license fees.
Customarily,
UCI assigns some tasks to the user interface that have
traditionally been handled by the engine itself. Most notably, the opening
book is usually expected to be handled by the interface, by simply selecting
moves to play until it is out of book, and only then starting up the engine
for calculation in the resulting
position. (
UCI does not specify
any on-disk format for the opening book; different UIs -- user interfaces --
usually have their own, proprietary formats.) Also, the user interface may
handle endgame tablebases if the engine does not support it itself, although
this is often better handled in the engine, as having tablebase information
can be useful to consider a possible future
position.
AUTHOR¶
Written by www.elephantbase.net
RESOURCES¶
Universal Chess Interface Protocol:
<
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/UCIProtocol.html>
Universal Chinese Chess Interface Protocol:
<
http://www.elephantbase.net/protocol/cchess_ucci.htm>
COPYING¶
Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public
License (GPL).