R/uci_uci.R

In bigchess: Read, Write, Manipulate, Explore Chess PGN Files and R API to UCI Chess Engines

#' Sending command uci for chess engine
#'
#' Sending command uci for chess engine. Info about uci command from http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/UCIProtocol.html
#' tell engine to use the uci (universal chess interface), this will be send once as a first command after program boot to tell the engine to switch to uci mode. After receiving the uci command the engine must identify itself with the "id" command and sent the "option" commands to tell the GUI which engine settings the engine supports if any. After that the engine should sent "uciok" to acknowledge the uci mode. If no uciok is sent within a certain time period, the engine task will be killed by the GUI.
#' @param engine engine object
#' @return engine object
#'
#' @export
uci_uci <- function(engine){
  return(uci_cmd(engine,"uci"))
}