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Subject: Re: question about making my engine winbooard compatible

Author: José Carlos

Date: 11:01:34 02/10/02

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On February 10, 2002 at 13:52:33, Uri Blass wrote:

>I started to read tim mann page
>
>http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard/engine-intf.html
>
>I see that tscp that is a winboard engine does not know about a lot of commands.
>
>I think that it may be better if the first thing that they describe there is
>only the commands that are needed to play a game under winboard.
>
>I find that the second command protover N is not needed to play a game because
>tscp that does not know about it can play under winboard.
>
>It is better to describe a game and the exact commands that winboard send the
>engine and not to start by giving a lot of information that most of it is not
>relevant  for programmers who want only to tell their program to play under
>winboard.
>
>Uri

  There's a file in the winboard directory called engine-intf.html where you'll
find the information you need to connect your engine to winboard. TSCP was
developed before protover 2, so it only uses protover 1 commands.

  José C.



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