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

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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