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Subject: Re: "The King" Xboard Engine

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:33:57 01/12/01

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On January 12, 2001 at 16:30:22, John Merlino wrote:

>On January 12, 2001 at 16:26:01, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On January 12, 2001 at 16:14:02, John Merlino wrote:
>>
>>>On January 12, 2001 at 16:11:37, James Constance wrote:
>>>
>>>>Is it possible to use "the King" Xboard engine supplied with Chessmaster 8000 in
>>>>a winboard program like Chess Patner?
>>>>
>>>>thx
>>>
>>>Nope. There are security measures to prevent its use outside of the Chessmaster
>>>GUI.
>>
>>Can the CM GUI perform the same features as Winboard [online play, etc], so that
>>there is no harm in this measure?
>
>Not with chess engines. The only "players" that are allowed to connect to each
>other are humans, and only with other CM users.
>
>That is one of the next big steps in the online support: the ability to
>"connect" to a Chessmaster Live session with a computer personality. It
>certainly won't happen in this version, though....

Feature request:
Batch processing of EPD records.  Source code to do this from Steven J. Edwards
is publicly available and can be used without royalty.  Both the SAN toolkit
used by Crafty and the OCD toolkit accomplish this goal.  Here is the notice
from the OCD toolkit:

ReadMe.txt: brief documentation for the OCD (Object Chess Demonstrator)

Revised: 1998.06.18

Author: S. J. Edwards (sje@mv.mv.com)

WARNING: This is a work in progress.  Use at your own risk.  No
guarantees.

Abstract
--------

The OCD (Object Chess Demonstrator) is an ANSI C++ chess programming
toolkit.  Its purpose is to help support standards for chess data
representation and interchange.  The source is made publicly available
without charge for both research and commercial purposes.
ReadMe.txt: brief documentation for the OCD (Object Chess Demonstrator)

Revised: 1998.06.18

Author: S. J. Edwards (sje@mv.mv.com)

WARNING: This is a work in progress.  Use at your own risk.  No
guarantees.

Abstract
--------

The OCD (Object Chess Demonstrator) is an ANSI C++ chess programming
toolkit.  Its purpose is to help support standards for chess data
representation and interchange.  The source is made publicly available
without charge for both research and commercial purposes.




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