GUIDE protocol

[Walter Thoen]

Walter,

I believe that both Bert on yourself have implemented your own enhancements to GUIDE. To get some of the above working properly I would also require some enhancements to the GUIDE protocol (and the DXP protocol e.g. for Fisher time as I proposed in another thread). Would you be interested to standardise these enhancements again and to support a new updated GUIDE protocol version?

I'm very much interested to standardize further the GUIDE protocol.
Basically if I would start from scratch I might do it differently.
So I'm open to share all enhancements, and new proposals.

Bert

Bert,

I thought it better to start a new topic for this subject.

As a start I would propose the following list of potential improvements:

* Support for more communication methods than only TCP/IP
* Allow GUI to query engine for all legal moves in a position
* Allow GUI to query end game databases direct (i.e. not using analysis functionality)
* Allow the use of PDN in certain messages such "game" and "requestgame"
* Support activation of DXP through GUIDE
* Standardise some of the common engine options (such as options related to Opening Book, Endgame Database)

Regards,
Walter