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Subject: Re: Communication between two program versions

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 07:15:11 09/07/00

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On September 07, 2000 at 01:36:51, Leen Ammeraal wrote:

>To find out if my new chess program version is
>stronger than my old one, I usually let
>them play against each other, acting as
>an operator myself to perform the moves.
>These two programs play on the
>same computer (under Windows 98). I would
>very much like to let them communicate automatically.
>In other words, when one has made a move
>it has to inform the other about this and
>the other has to take over control etc.
>Are there chess programmer who have
>experience with this? If so, could you
>please give me a hint how to realize this?

It can be done quite nicely with the help of Winboard. I think, it shouldn't
be too difficult to implement the winboard protocol. For basic functionality
only a few commands are needed.

You can find out more about Winboard at http://www.tim-mann.org/

Regards,
Dieter



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