Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Timeline of significant Xboard/Winboard events.

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:46:39 02/11/02

Go up one level in this thread


On February 11, 2002 at 17:25:30, Will Singleton wrote:

>On February 11, 2002 at 08:06:22, Aaron Tay wrote:
>
>>I've created a timeline stretching from 93 (where Tim Mann took over as the
>>maintainer of Xboard) to 2002/current about what i feel are the significant
>>events in the development of the xboard/Winboard protocol
>>
>>http://www.chesskit.com/aarontay/Winboard/timeline.html
>>
>>It covers events such as the creation of zippy, the first few free
>>xboard/Winboard engine, the release of commercial winboard engines, protover II,
>>the rise in popularity of the standard as other commercial interfaces adopt the
>>standard up to recent events with Fritz supporting UCI and removing the adaptor
>>from the site.
>>
>>Any comments (any thing i left out?), corrections are welcome
>>
>>Aaron
>
>Thanks for the research.  I must have missed it when Chessmaster added winboard
>support.  You can run winboard-compatible engines in Chessmaster?

Yes.  Also in Chess Assistant.  What is more, you can run ChessMaster *under*
Winboard.  It won't use the opening book when used directly under Winboard,
however.




This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.