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Subject: Re: What do people think of the name Fathom?

Author: James Swafford

Date: 12:13:31 03/12/00

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On March 12, 2000 at 11:17:02, KarinsDad wrote:

>On March 12, 2000 at 00:30:52, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>>On March 12, 2000 at 00:09:25, KarinsDad wrote:
>>
>>>On March 11, 2000 at 23:57:51, Will Singleton wrote:
>>>
>>>>On March 11, 2000 at 09:31:00, KarinsDad wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I finally found time to work on my program again and the name Fathom came to me
>>>>>in a dream last night (shows what I dream about).
>>>>>
>>>>>Has this name already been used? If not, what do people think of it?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>>KarinsDad :)
>>>>
>>>>It's a fine name.  Would be nice to see a fine program go with it.  Perhaps you
>>>>should begin playing a few games on the servers at this point.  Put it on the
>>>>line.  Let's see what you've got.
>>>>
>>>>Will
>>>
>>>I've got nothing at this point. No winboard interface. No opening book. No
>>>EGTBs. Not even a hash table (yet, but that is next on the list). The only
>>>reason I brought up the name thing is that I thought of it last night.
>>>Otherwise, I wouldn't have bored all of you with yet another reference to my
>>>incomplete (and no completion in the foreseeable future) program.
>>>
>>>KarinsDad :)
>>
>>I haven't got a winboard interface, nor egtb's, and my opening book is the
>>smallest on the net.  Sometimes I wonder if my hash tables work correctly.  Yet,
>>I am there, playing.  Had some good results lately, too.  Maybe you would too.
>>
>>Will
>
>Ok, you and Andrew have convinced me. However, it will still be a few months
>before I shake out all of the bugs (assuming that I do not get preempted for the
>nth time again) and get some form of interface to FICS.
>
>Where can I get documentation (as if a hundred people have not already asked
>this question) on a simple interface to the servers?

There is an engine interface file in the Winboard / Xboard package.
Can't remember the name of the file, but it'll be pretty obvious.

I'm assuming your program reads/writes to the console.


>
>Thanks,
>
>KarinsDad :)



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