Author: Roland Pfister
Date: 23:23:43 04/06/98
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On April 06, 1998 at 19:09:46, fca wrote: >I am *very* interested in initiating or collaborating in such a project, >whether it is by adapting something like Chrilly's Autoplayer or by >starting from scratch. The idea would be to enable all commercial chess >software that know about Autoplayers to be used on say the Internet >Chess Club in *auto* mode... So we can see, for example, if Rebel 10 on >a P2/450 can take on Ferret at 1 0 on an (unrefrigerated) Alpha, without >a move time handicap! > >I am a low-level programmer who occasionally dabbles high. > >Of course, I would love to be told the matter is already in hand.... >There is clearly some commercial potential. I am *only* interested in >using it! > >Comments, suggestions, assistance, follow-ups all welcomed > A long time ago Bob Hyatt proposed to use two PCs : one running the commercial program with auto232 and the other acting as a translator between auto232 and XBoard/WinBoard protocol. At that time there was no auto232 interface for Windows, so nobody tried that idea. But now... With this combination you are not able to play a game fully automatically. You have to enter the playing level into the commercial program by hand as auto232 does not support that. Roland
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