Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 12:15:16 01/22/01
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On January 22, 2001 at 10:33:46, Wayde Beasley wrote: >On January 22, 2001 at 09:56:31, Peter Fendrich wrote: > >>On January 22, 2001 at 02:11:55, Wayde Beasley wrote: >> >>>http://www.egroups.com/files/freeboard-dev/freeboard-screen-capture.JPG >> >>How is you project going? >>I recall that you had some problem with the chessboard? >>//Peter > >I switched boards away from a proprietary version that had a serious memory >leak; but now FB uses a dumb board, which means Freeboard is no more than a dumb >terminal to the stdout of a chess engine. But, that is not for long -- if my >chessboard control guy does what he says he'll do, then by mid-february I should >have a prototype of an intelligent chessboard control that uses TTF for the >pieces and understands SAN, FEN, EPD, etc. Freeboard philosophy frowns on eye >candy. With TTF, someone should be able to easily switch piece styles by adding >another font, if that's their desire. > >In the meantime, I am working on reading/saving settings profiles and engine >parameters. And setting up simple controls for the various engine settings, like >the eval params, search extension params, hash size, etc. It's a delight to be >able to play Crafty and switch a parameter on-the-fly with a click of the mouse >and then save that group of settings for later recall. Also, drag and drop EPD >files for analysis by crafty. And debugging engine communication. > >It's a dirty job, but somebody's gotta do it. > >Winsock network communication will be relatively easy to implement, I think. >But, I won't start that until after I get the board and it does what it's spose >to do. You are doing a great thing for the chess universe! Thank you!
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