Author: Willie Wood
Date: 18:02:40 01/22/98
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On January 22, 1998 at 16:54:44, John Scalo wrote: > >I'm afraid I don't know of a solution but I've wondered the same thing >myself. How exactly does this work on the DOS side? Is there some sort >of standard protocol known whereby ICS interfaces can talk to chess >engines? > >AppleScript would be a perfect vehicle for this but first we would all >have to agree on a standard protocol. > >-j John, I don't think there's a standard, other than that in xboard, winboard and amiga-board (the latter two being ports of the first). But one could think of a simple command set, consisting of things like new game, set position, move piece, start search, etc. Once an interface exists, chess programmers could simply write code to accept the commands specific to that interface, an easy task. A chess engine, after all, doesn't do much other than get a position and search a move. So I don't think there's a need for a standard. WW
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