Author: Peter Herttrich
Date: 02:00:31 04/30/98
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On April 29, 1998 at 08:39:34, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >On April 29, 1998 at 05:47:52, Peter Herttrich wrote: >> >>When do the the Chess-programmers discover the LAN-Cards? >> >>Every stupid shoot-em-up-game is able to use such >>ethernetcards. They are cheap (abt $20). >>Every OS has a IP-Stack, also Win3.11 (Trumpet-Shareware). > >A corresponding interface already exists. Take xboard or winboard. Many >amateurs adapted their program to this interface. Besides GUI, >x(win)board handles communication via TCP/IP. I guess, one problem is >just that no commercial program has integrated the interface yet >(perhaps with the exception of Zarkov). >So the number of opponents is quite limited. >However, IMO this would not be the end of the discussions as you say. >Who for instance is going to check that the programs do not use more >time than available , etc. I think to be really clean you need a kind of >refree program, handling the communication between the chess programs. > >Regards, Uli Hi Uli, I don't understand: .."Who for instance is going to check that the programs do not use more time than available ..". Did not every programm test the time of the opponet and say 'Flag fallen' ? Please explain this problem. Cheerio Peter BTW: Thanks for your Comet :-)
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