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Subject: Re: Winboard for the Mac

Author: Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)

Date: 00:13:42 01/24/98

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On January 22, 1998 at 15:20:01, Willie Wood wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>After quite a bit of searching I've not found any program for the Mac
>that will act as a telnet interface for a chess engine.  Kind of odd,
>since there are many ics interfaces, and many analysis programs, and
>many chess-playing programs.
>
>Before I just give up and write my own telnet code, using my own simple
>interface, I thought I would ask one more time if anyone has a usable
>mac winboard.  Alternatively, does anyone have a telnet chessboard
>interface and would share the source so that I could add applescript
>support?
>
>WW


I don't think this is exactly what you want, but ...
- ExaChess Lite (and ExaChess) support an AppleScript interface
  to various chess engines. The ExaChess author,
  r.exner@trl.oz.au (Rolf Exner) should be able to tell you
  what he uses, if this is of interest. If nothing else,
  that might let you use ExaChess Lite as the GUI, even
  though you might have to write the Telnet interface yourself.

- I believe that Fixation author has his ICS interface code
  available on his Web site - I sort of remember that ICS was
  a telnet interface at some point. If that has now changed,
  there were some ancient FICS/ICS clients that probably do
  things the old way.




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