Author: Pete Galati
Date: 19:32:38 07/21/01
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On July 21, 2001 at 16:07:54, Adam Oellermann wrote: > >>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 Just noting some similarities in the 2 situations, not flaming you. If you thought THAT was flaming, my appologies, try not to be so tender. I'll ignore this and let you discuss this with the others, and you can talk about how bad I've been to you. Pete
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