Author: Chessfun
Date: 16:19:42 06/06/01
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On June 06, 2001 at 13:48:06, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >On June 06, 2001 at 08:29:30, Michael P. Nance Sr. wrote: >>On June 06, 2001 at 05:42:31, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >>>On June 05, 2001 at 20:31:32, John Merlino wrote: >>>>On June 05, 2001 at 20:11:24, Marc van Hal wrote: >>>>>Can anyone help me with this >>>>>I would like to play online computer computer games >>>>>Marc van Hal >>>>The engine in Chessmaster 8000 cannot be used to play computer games outside of >>>>the CM GUI (or, at least, not effectively). >>>>jm >>>Hmm. isn’t this a programming forum. I doubt that someone here that is capable >>>to make a chess engine will use more than an hour to figure out how to use the >>>king with Winboard. >>>(Both the starting lines surrounded by hyphen, and the magical number for >>>opponent king value). >>>Enough of that; >>>Suppose that I write a driver to my own GUI (for the time being privateware) for >>>test purpose, should I delete the code/driver before I make it downloadable as a >>>freeware. >>>I like and use Chessmaster a lot, and my GUI would never be near what yours is. >>>The only need I have for writing an own GUI is for spreading my engine to ‘not’ >>>data people. >>>Odd Gunnar Malin >>Well old Buddy Gunnar,I not a (DATA PERSON),so please let allow Me a >>copy.E-Mail:nance050557@prodigy.net Regards,Mike > >I’m not sure I know what you ask for. >If it’s my GUI so will it be free when I’m finish to add extension to it, and my >own bug test is over. >If it was a modified Winboard (thereby programming people) so I let it give a >try this afternoon. That I was afraid of was that you must hack the winboard >code to give a command before Winboard send xboard command. But, guess what. The >King give a damn in if his command comes before or after the xboard command so >you only need set the right parameters in your Winboard startup command >(/initString). There is a catch with it. The King isn’t able to read opening >books, because the CM GUI does this. >So maybe another GUI (CA, CB el.) was a better try, if it was for playing on an >ICS. A CB version would be usefull as it would would I guess the same as both Shredder 5 and Deep Shredder currently do without book. >(I think I saw something like Tim Mann was planning a book option for Winboard >in one of these forums.) > >Odd Gunnar Malin >(To give the command line here? Are I going from hacker to cracker then?) Not sure I know nor care :-) It would just make things that much easier. Sarah.
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