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Subject: Re: Communication between two program versions

Author: Leen Ammeraal

Date: 07:41:19 09/07/00

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On September 07, 2000 at 10:15:11, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>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


Thank you for your answer. I downloaded Winboard some time
ago, but if I remember well, programmers were not encouraged
in its documentation to connect it to their own
programs, or at least were warned
about the difficulties involved. I assume that I should first
use Winboard in connection with my program, before
considering using this auto232 protocol of Remi Colom, to
which Tim Mann refers, or am I wrong? So far, my program
(Queen) is a stand-alone Windows application.
Leen Ammeraal
http://home.wxs.nl/~ammeraal/




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