From: TAKIZAWA Takenobu <takizawa <at> mnc <dot> waseda <dot> ac <dot> jp>
Date: 31 jan 2007
Subject: Re: First draft of the Universal Shogi Interface (USI)


Dear Tord:

Thank you very much for your reply.

Takenobu Takizawa

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From: Tord Romstad <tord.romstad <at> gmail <dot> com> 
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:57:12 +0100 
Subject: Re: First draft of the Universal Shogi Interface (USI) 
> 
> Support for the CSA kifu format is of course a requirement in any
> shogi software package which wants to be taken seriously,
> whether or not participation in the WCSC is planned.  But I want
> to implement this functionality in the GUI, not in the engine.  If I
> ever participate in the WCSC (I hope I will, perhaps in 2008 or
> 2009), I intend to let my GUI take care of the communication with
> the CSA server, and also of writing kifu files.

We are eager to see you in near future.
> 
> In general, one of the goals of my project is to make it easier to
> write shogi software. The way things work now, it seems that
> everybody has to write not only the intelligent parts of the shogi
> engine, but also a GUI (or even several GUIs if the program
> should run in more than one OS), opening book code, code for
> connecting to and communicating with the CSA server, reading
> and writing kifu files (and possibly other formats like PSN), and
> so on.  This really shouldn't be necessary.  Most of this
> functionality could be moved to the GUI.
> 
> Instead of forcing every new shogi programmer to reinvent lots of
> wheels, I want to make it possible to write a shogi engine as a
> simple command line tool, which does not interact with the
> outside world except through standard input and output, and
> which can be ported to new operating systems with a simple
> recompile.
> 
I agree your opinion.  Thank you, again for your work.
We hope a lot of people including people who do not speak Japanese,
(programmers) to enter computer shogi world.  I do not like them 
each to force to write GUI part, too.

Takenobu Takizawa


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