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Subject: Re: New winboard engine Blikskottel 0.4 ?

Author: Andreas Herrmann

Date: 09:51:05 06/12/01

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On June 12, 2001 at 07:04:01, Adam Oellermann wrote:

>Hi Andreas,
>
>I am to blame for Blikskottel. I am starting from scratch, for the pure fun of
>it :). Obviously you can download the 0.4 release, but it's quite lame. The 0.5
>"work in progress" is a little less lame (still fairly lame) and sometimes
>appears on FICS as Skottel. Skottel's rating on FICS is only about 1700, but
>then Blikskottel has only existed for just over a month :)
>
>For those who are interested, Blikskottel is Afrikaans slang; translated it
>would mean approximately rascal. The squirrel which digs up my wife's
>strawberries often gets called a blikskottel. "Blikskottel" literally means
>something like "tin plate", but I have no idea of the etymology.
>
>Blikskottel has rudimentary WinBoard support as of v0.2; this will (hopefully)
>become more sophisticated with time. With any luck, so will the playing strength
>:)
>
>Regards
>Adam Oellermann


Hi Adam,

welcome to the "Winboard community". I just saw that the detailpage for
Blikskottel on Thomas Mayer's page is ready, he is very quick ->
http://home.t-online.de/home/thomas.j.mayer/Quark-Englisch/Winboard-Newsticker/winboard-newsticker.htm

best regards
Andreas




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