Author: Aaron Tay
Date: 21:38:17 02/11/02
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On February 11, 2002 at 20:01:13, Dann Corbit 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 >9 August 1995, version 3.3 of Xboard also had the Winboard port to Win32: > >http://groups.google.com/groups?q=+xboard+group:rec.games.chess.computer&start=600&hl=en&scoring=d&selm=409ddu%242u8%40src-news.pa.dec.com&rnum=684 > What is the significance of this? I thought Winboard already existed with Xboard at the time.Being ignorant,For most part, I always thought the two were pretty much the same besides the fact that one was for windows of course. >Version 3.4 of Winboard/Xboard had support for Crafty (1995): >=== Change highlights since the last XBoard release (3.4) === > >* Preliminary support for Bob Hyatt's chess program Crafty. Currently >the only documentation for this is in the FAQ file, and a few things >don't work with Crafty 8.23. More development is planned. Yes. I have this. But from Bob's Hyatt's reply on the crafty mailing list, I gathered that Crafty could be hooked up to ICC a little while before Xboard was supposed to support it officially. (Early Jan 95) >KnightCap and Phalanx (Xboard engines) date from March, 1997. Interesting, I didn't know that. Thanks for your help. Aaron
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