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Subject: Re: Winboard Engine Programming Question

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 00:35:25 12/06/00

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On December 05, 2000 at 22:38:54, michael mayfield wrote:

>I am not a programmer so I am not expecting a very technical answer.  I was just
>wondering if a programmer has to sacrifice anything in his engine if he wants to
>make it compatible with winboard.  By sacrifice I means things such as
>knowledge, strength, speed, or anything else that the programmer would like to
>put into the engine.

No. I spend less than 1 ms to translate the move I normally send to my own board
in a winboard way. Maybe another ms to test if there is any input coming from
winboard ( beside the ms I spend to check if somebody entered a move the normal
way ) but that's a low priority thread so nothing heavy.


Tony

>
>Thanks



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