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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