Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:14:57 07/20/99
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On July 20, 1999 at 17:58:34, Robert Pawlak wrote: >I'd be interested to hear what some of the people directly involved with the >development of chess software think about Linux. > >Specifically, do you think that it is now/will be a platform worth developing >for. From a layman's standpoint, I would think that it would not be too >difficult to port an engine written in ANSI C over to Linux, then use Tkl or >something like it to build an interface. > >Also, do you think that the development tools are sufficiently mature to >undertake something like this? There are already a large number of very good chess programs for Linux. Crafty and Phalanx spring to mind. With an xboard front end, they have an interface that is second to none also. >But, I realize that not all engines are coded in C... As a side question, what >is the percentage of chess engines coded in C, and in assembler? Most chess programs are written in C, with smaller numbers in C++, Pascal, BASIC and Assembly.
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