Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 04:59:11 07/23/99
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On July 23, 1999 at 06:49:46, Shep wrote: >On July 23, 1999 at 04:47:36, Harald Faber wrote: > >>On July 23, 1999 at 04:26:17, Charles Unruh wrote: >> >>> Would it be legal for Chessbase to have a function where a person could run >>>their chessmaster engine in the fritz GUI? Companies like convetka allow >>>engines as diverse as rebel, mchess, genius, and hiarcs to all function in there >>>training programs already. Once i have the king engine as a fritz engine i will >>>have it all(Well once i fenagle a copy of ferret anyway).. >> >>I don't believe it is possible as there is no eng, dll etc. for CM. > >The main problem is that CM is so much "integrated" that you cannot just feed it >some moves from a command line. > >I think it is theoretically possible to "hack" any program that allows >command-line input into running under Winboard, but it would probably require a >lot of skills and experimenting (one program calling another, parsing input to >and from, etc.). > >But for CM, I seriously doubt it. :) > >--- >Shep Just figure out where the engine is embedded in the executable and what the interface to it is, and hook in there. ;-) Okay, it is possible that they didn't compile the engine as a static library within the .exe, that would make it more difficult... Dave
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