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Subject: Re: Programming Questions

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 09:30:31 02/04/02

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On February 04, 2002 at 00:31:25, Casey Camp wrote:

>Actually, it's not an assignment, and I think I'm going to take the advice of
>the first response which is to use winboard and then spend more time and energy
>making a better engine.  Also winboard will make it easier for me to test the
>engine's strength on internet chess servers.

LOL. Yet another Winboard/Xboard convert.The advanatages of Winboard/Xboard for
a chess programmer is really too good to resist..Another advanatge is that there
is a ready pool of people running winboard engine tournaments, so you get a lot
more testers as well, if you are interested in making your engine good.


> If anybody knows of site that will
>test an engine's strength (or strengths at different handicap levels) please let
>me know.
>Thanks to all who posted,
>Casey Camp


There are lots.. of sites willing to do so, if yours is winboard compatiable..

Some

http://www.geocities.com/lyapko/winboard.htm
http://home.hccnet.nl/leo.dijksman/index.html
http://home.t-online.de/home/g.simon.rgbg/WinterRapid.htm

And then there are others who will run gaunlets, test using various test suites
etc..

Trying asking

http://f11.parsimony.net/forum16635/



Aaron..



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