Author: Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)
Date: 22:19:54 01/24/98
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> Hi Richard, > >Yes, I have ExaChess Lite, and it does a good job of playing user v >engine, and engine v engine. I believe it supports Gnuchess, zzzzzz, >and MacChess 3.0e, and perhaps crafty. > >I also have the fixation code, but it is really complex and scattered, >without much doc. The author seems to be in India for awhile. > >I decided a few days ago to write my own telnet interface. With the >help of some CTB code found on the MacDigest(?) site (was MacTutor), and >using the tcp/telnet CTB connection tool written by Tim Endres (sync >calls only), I've just got a nice telnet interface going to fics. All >it does so far is connect, and I can login, but I just have a bare >window to plop the text into, and haven't got the chess program to parse >any i/o. But it should be a simple matter to issue seeks, and figure >out when someone accepts, and use style 12, or whatever. > >When I'm done, I'll have a good interface that other mac folks can use >to connect and play online. They'll just have to modify their code to >accept appleevents. > >WW What would be really cool is if you and Rolf Exner could cooperate on the Applescript commands, so that your telnet tool would be sort of like another engine to ExaChess. The hope being that then ExaChess could be used as the chess GUI for all this.
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