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Subject: Re: Screamer is a Mac PPC chess program, compatible with ExaChess - Tourney?

Author: Hans Havermann

Date: 08:33:21 12/05/00

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>>GnuChessMac 4.0 and MacChess 4.0 are being excluded because they are not under
>>active development?

On December 04, 2000 at 22:30:30, Richard A. Fowell wrote:

>No ... I'm excluding them because it is my understanding that the "tournament"
>feature of ExaChess was introduced in the version 2.0 interface, and the
>latter two are not compatible with that. With the "tournament" feature,
>I can run a 100 game match unattended. Without it, I have to start each game
>manually. Too much trouble, for me.

I *have* been able to 'tournament' some short matches between MacChess and both
Screamer and Vanessa. I just tried it with GnuChessMac and, although it goes
through the motions, ExaChess fails to pick up some GnuChess move early in the
games, the same situation you had described as a Screamer issue.



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