1st draft released:"The Universal Shogi Interface"

Tord Romstad, the author of open source chess engine called Glaurung released the 1st draft of The Universal Shogi Interface on January 24, 2007.

Here are the links to the communications related to the  in shogi-l(mailing list) up to the release for your reference.

Some thoughts on computer Shogi (by Tord Romstad, Jan 15, 2007 10:01 PST )
RE: Some thoughts on computer Shogi (by Adrian Petrescu, Jan 15, 2007 10:24 PST)
Re: Some thoughts on computer Shogi (by Jeff Rollason, Jan 15, 2007 12:25 PST)
Re: Some thoughts on computer Shogi (by Hans Secelle, Jan 16, 2007 00:30 PST)
Re: Some thoughts on computer Shogi (by Tord Romstad, Jan 16, 2007 03:03 PST )
Re: Some thoughts on computer Shogi (by Tord Romstad, Jan 16, 2007 03:05 PST )
Re: Some thoughts on computer Shogi (by Tord Romstad, Jan 16, 2007 05:33 PST)
Re: Some thoughts on computer Shogi (by Jeff Rollason, Jan 17, 2007 00:18 PST )
RE: Some thoughts on computer Shogi (by Mark Schreibery Jan 18, 2007 08:18 PST)
Re: Some thoughts on computer Shogi (by Tord Romstad, Jan 18, 2007 10:55 PST)
Re: Some thoughts on computer Shogi (by Tord Romstad, Jan 18, 2007 11:34 PST)
Re: Some thoughts on computer Shogi (by Manabu Terao, Jan 19, 2007 08:38 PST )
Re: Some thoughts on computer Shogi (by Tord Romstad, Jan 19, 2007 12:43 PST )
Re: Some thoughts on computer Shogi (by David J Bush, Jan 19, 2007 13:34 PST )
Re: Some thoughts on computer Shogi (by Manabu Terao, Jan 19, 2007 14:18 PST )
Re: SOme thoughts on computer Shogi (by Tord Romstad, Jan 21, 2007 02:52 PST )
First draft of the Universal Shogi Interface(USI) (by Tord Romstad, Jan 24, 2007 12:22 PST )

And the below is the first response to the draft.

Re: First draft of the Universal Shogi Interface(USI) (by David J Bush, Jan 24, 2007 13:04 PST )

Comments

[H.G.Muller]

It might be of interest to people interested in computer Shogi that I generalized one of the most popular open-source Graphical User Interfaces for Chess, the WinBoard GUI, to handle Chess-like games on boards of all sizes, also fully supporting the possibility for piece drops as needed for Shogi, Crazyhouse and Bughouse.

As the way the pieces are represented on the screen is user-selectable by choosing a true-type font, this means it can also be used as a GUI for Shogi. I even included some bitmaps of Shogi pieces.

To get ann idea how it looks, see:

http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/showgi2.gif

and

http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/showgi3.gif

[takodori]

Thanks for the info. H.G. Muller. I will send you my personal email message later.