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Subject: Re: CPIP protocol spec

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 09:57:30 06/03/98

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>I support any effort to make a truly standard interface.  Also
>it should be combined (either by you or someone else) with
>a quality autotester.  There seems to be an autotester out

Writing an autotester for CPIP programs should be very simple...

I had plans to do it this week, but I've been sidetracked a bit. If
somebody else wants to do it, they're more than welcome. In fact, I have
an "engine_class" class in CPView (in engine.cpp) that makes
opening/closing/etc. a CPIP chess program almost trivial...

>Anyway, I strongly support your efforts and would like to
>see a standard that is non-commercial.  And also cross
>platform.  It will probably be a lot easier to do the
>unix tools but a real effort should be made to do this
>for all possible platforms.

Actually, something I was thinking about last night is a "glue" program
for XBoard. You would run it as the chess engine and it would translate
between a CPIP program and XBoard. I think this would be a good setup
until XBoard gets CPIP support.

Cheers,
Tom



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