Pascal Georges wrote:
Hi!
> What do you think?
>
> I would treat this case by case. I am reluctant to
> implement a service that requires a fee, given that it
> would turn Scid into a promotion tool for those services
> (but again it should be studied case by case).
We perfectly agree in this point. However, the point would
most likely not be a "requirement" but more or less only the
option to handle such things on a server. Like FICS, where
you also require Login/Password.
Personally, I'd feel it important, that the interface itself
is free and open, it could then be up to the service to
handle its content.
Currently, it's only a playing with ideas, but some points
I'd have in mind would be e.g.
- Fetching information about a position
This could be information from a larger DB or textual
annotations e.g. I could imagine this for some kind of
opening assistance e.g. I could imagine a service to get a
FEN and reports back with the informations available.
This is also the area of endgame TBs. I think, beyond 5
pieces these TBs will hardly have a future in local
installations. Maybe it would be a good thing to propose
an open protocol here before some closed proprietary stuff
comes up? (My most concrete ideas however are in the other
end of the story, ie. the opening.)
- Updating player information
One could think about ratings, player photos or other
players data, e.g.
- Updating a local database with new games
We discussed the idea to fetch TWIC some time ago. Well,
one would surely implement such a thing much better in an
open service. Another usage could also be to fetch the
other games in a recent tournament where one participated
or games from FICS. On FICS there is acutally a robot,
maybe it could also be a more transparently accessible WS.
Recently, the later was added in CB10. Well, in the CB case
it is some proprietary and undocumented protocol, you could
only hack it to use it. This gives me the idea that one
might as well try to define open protocols.
It might just be, that in the process of inventing a set of,
let's call it "web services for chess" only few or even one
site might offer them, and this is actually the point where
politics comes in. I think we could try to play a positive
and constructive role by trying to find and support open
ways for this kind of information interchange. We could on
the other hand wait what's happening and try to implement
afterwards what's there, which would be a more passive role.
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