Author: Albert Silver
Date: 05:46:05 12/30/01
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On December 30, 2001 at 00:50:02, Thomas Mayer wrote:
>
>
>Hi Eric,
>
>> Can someone give link to info about making chess program to play on
>> BlitzIn(ICC)and also for Winboard. I had a link to one but can't find it. I
>> need to know the commands and other things and I don't want to write my own
>> interface.
>
>In BlitzIn you can't implement chess engines for several reasons... What you
>need is the winboard-protocol. When you have implemented the protocol in your
>engine, it is quite easy to connect with it to ICC, FICS etc.
>Also you can use your engine then in several fine GUIs, like ChessPartner,
>ChessAssistant, ChessAcademy, ChessMaster 8000 (to name those GUIs which have
>implemented the procol in a fine and stable way)
You can also configure the engine to play on ICC from within Chess Assistant 6
or the free version Chess Assistant Light.
Albert
>
>The protocol description could be find here:
>http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard/engine-intf.html
>
>Some nice source-examples could be find here:
>http://home.earthlink.net/~tckjr/ (TSCP from Tom Kerrigan)
>http://www.seanet.com/~brucemo/gerbil/gerbil.htm (Gerbil from Bruce Moreland)
>http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~cmf/chess/beowulf.html (Beowulf from Colin Frayn /
>Dann Corbit)
>
>that might give you a good starting point.
>
>Greets, Thomas
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