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).

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