eleeye_engine(6)														  eleeye_engine(6)

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).

								   16 july 2009 						  eleeye_engine(6)