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A Protocol is a formal description of digital message formats and the rules for exchanging those messages in or between computing systems. A protocol describes the syntax, semantics, and synchronization of communication. The nature of the communication, the actual data exchanged and any state-dependent behaviors are defined by a protocol specification, the rules can be expressed by algorithms and data structures.

Computer Chess Protocols

The aim of computer chess protocols is to define a standard to let a chess engine communicate with a user- or graphical user interfaces (GUI), including a game- or match controller to let engines play automatically on a computer, inside a computer network or over the internet. Chess engines, usually instantiated as child process of the GUI application, use standard streams or pipelines to receive and respond ASCII strings as messages.

• Auto232 (deprecated)
• Chess Engine Communication Protocol as used by the XBoard or WinBoard GUI
• icsdrone
• TLCS/TLCV (Web Broadcast)
• Universal Chess Interface (UCI)

See also

• Chess Server
• GUI
• InBetween
• Web Broadcast

Publications

• Jean-Luc Koning, Marc-Philippe Huget (2000). A Semi-Formal Specification Language Dedicated to Interaction Protocols. EJC 2000
• Chih-Hung Chen, Shun-Shii Lin, Min-Huei Huang (2012). Volunteer Computing System Applied to Computer Games. TCGA 2012 Workshop, pdf

Forum Posts

2000 ...

• Communication between two program versions by Leen Ammeraal, CCC, September 07, 2000

2005 ...

• Extensible Chess Interface (XCI) : updated draft by Michael Yee, CCC, March 14, 2005
  Re: Extensible Chess Interface (XCI) : updated draft by Lance Perkins, CCC, March 14, 2005
• XCI (Extensible Chess Interface) new draft by Michael Yee, CCC, March 18, 2005

2010 ...

• What should I support, UCI or Winboard? by Asim Pereira, CCC, April 22, 2012
• for Chess-variant authors by Harm Geert Muller, CCC, September 17, 2014 » Chess Engine Communication Protocol, WinBoard, XBoard
• XBoard and chess variants by Evert Glebbeek, CCC, October 28, 2014
• UCCI2WB by Harm Geert Muller, CCC, October 27, 2014 » Chinese Chess, UCI
• UCI protocol for chess variants by Evert Glebbeek, CCC, October 28, 2014 » UCI

2015 ...

• Crafty UCI version by Marek Soszynski, July 10, 2015 » Crafty, UCI
• communication protocols/servers for other games by Robert Pope, CCC, September 08, 2017

External Links

• Protocol from Wikipedia
• Communication protocol from Wikipedia
• GUI Protocol List from Computer-Chess Wiki by Ron Murawski

Layers and Protocols

• OSI model from Wikipedia
• TCP/IP model from Wikipedia
• Protocol stack from Wikipedia
• Internet Protocol Suite from Wikipedia
• Application Layer from Wikipedia
  Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) from Wikipedia
  File Transfer Protocol (FTP) from Wikipedia
  Post Office Protocol (POP) from Wikipedia
  Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) from Wikipedia
• Transport Layer from Wikipedia
  Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) from Wikipedia
  User Datagram Protocol (UDP) from Wikipedia
• Internet Layer from Wikipedia
  Internet Protocol (IP) from Wikipedia
  Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) from Wikipedia
• Link Layer from Wikipedia
  Point-to-Point Protocol from Wikipedia

Related Standards

• Message Passing Interface (MPI) from Wikipedia
• Common Object Request Broker Architecture (Corba) from Wikipedia
• JSON from Wikipedia
• SOAP from Wikipedia
• XML from Wikipedia
• XML Protocol from Wikipedia

Misc

• Datagram
• Alpha Protocol the Role-playing video game

Simon Phillips

• Simon Phillips, Anthony Jackson and Ray Russell - Protocol from Simon Phillips Returns 1992, YouTube Video
  
• Simon Phillips & Protocol, with Ndugu Chancler and Billy Ward - Biplane to Bermuda, MD Drumfestival 2008, YouTube Video
  featuring Andy Timmons, Everette Harp, Steve Weingart, Del Atkins
  

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