Author: Adam Oellermann
Date: 13:07:54 07/21/01
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>Who was that guy who showed up out of nowhere a while ago and made a big deal >about how he was going to come out with a vastly improved interface to replace >Winboard with? And he stuck around for a while, and then for some reason the >guy wanted to have his CCC account deleted all of a sudden, and he vanished, and >for all I know so did is project. > >So this all has a very familiar ring to it. > >Pete Hi there, I thought I had made my perspective clear, but let me see if I can make it a bit simpler. - I don't think WinBoard sucks. It is, in fact, my favourite interface - I use it to play chess on FICS myself - As I previously stated, I am using the Timeseal .EXE from WinBoard. I am therefore seeking to add to WinBoard's foundations, admittedly in a rather humble fashion. - I am not working on a vastly improved interface to replace WinBoard with. As I stated earlier, I am working on some code to glue my WB-compatible engine to FICS. - My reasoning is to provide *myself* with a tool that I can mess around with, and modify completely at my discretion - As I feel indebted to others who have shared the fruits of their work (people such as Tim Mann, for instance), I hoped that others may find what I've done useful and offered to share it and the code with anyone who's interested. Now, I don't see anything in this lot which would seem to invite this sort of flame. Please feel free not to use it if you don't want to :-) Finally, let me reiterate that what I have at the moment is very limited in terms of functionality - certainly not what you would call a replacement for WinBoard. However, my chess engine, Blikskottel, has played several games on FICS now using the engine, and so I thought the time was right to share what I have done. I hope this clears things up. I will make the code available from my web site later this weekend, for those who are interested in hearing a new idea out before flaming the originator to ashes. Adam
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