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Subject: Re: "The King" Xboard Engine

Author: John Merlino

Date: 13:41:34 01/12/01

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On January 12, 2001 at 16:33:57, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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.

I'll tell the dev team. DEFINITELY a next version thing (if at all, depending on
what other features are decided upon).

jm




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