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

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 22:11:04 02/11/02

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Thank you for your information

On February 11, 2002 at 18:47:43, Jon Dart wrote:

>>
>> Jan 97
>>  - The Crazy Bishop becomes third publicly available Xboard/Winboard engine.
>
>Arasan 3.2, released in Sept. 1996, was Winboard-compatible. Arasan started
>playing on ICC in December 1996. I don't remember what other engines were ou
>compatible at the time, besides Gnuchess and Crafty. Probably there were some. I
>am not sure either Arasan or TCB was #3.

Well it's difficult to really establish which was #3. After all, some were never
released. And some could be considered semi-released (i.e whoever asked the
author would get a copy).

But right now, yours is the one to beat after Crafty.


Aaron

>--Jon



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