Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:18:37 05/16/01
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On May 16, 2001 at 13:44:39, Heiner Marxen wrote: [snip] >>I like a simple interface with a lot of options. Anyway, you could easily >>interface Chest to Chess Assistant and have the most glorious GUI interface >>imagineable. Indeed, the EPD processor type engines can bolt right in to Chess >>Assistant. Chest is a very good example of a chess analyzer that eats EPD and >>spits out EPD. > >Could you elaborate on that, Dann? >What is the engine interface of CA? Could I implement that? You already did. It calls chess engines which consume EPD and produce EPD. >Is it already there, and we only need deteailed instruction how to set it up? >Wher can I read about it? Have a look here: http://www.chessassistant.com/software/index_ca.htm > >>I share your respect for Heiner's coding. He's also a real nice guy. > >Thanks! I try to live up to that description. >But I need some help from others, who know better about GUIs. >I myself know next to nothing about GUI programming and interfacing. Don't bother. The professional interfaces represent thousands of man-hours of effort and it is silly to reproduce that effort. It very much puzzles me why engines like Bringer, NewRival and Comet create a GUI version when that effort is already performed in Winboard, and also Chess Assistant, etc. >When there is a way I can do it with moderate efforts, such that I can >run it under Linux/UNIX myself, I will seriously consider to go that way. GUI stuff is a big, boring pain in the butt. I am ever so grateful that people like Tim Mann have done it for us. Now, Winboard does not know how to process an EPD record, but Chess Assistant does. >Excuse the length of the above... I felt it necessary to explain myself. > ><eagerly waiting for many helpful responses> >Regards, >Heiner
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