Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:41:25 06/29/98
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On June 29, 1998 at 14:53:33, Komputer Korner wrote: >right now there are 5 automated publicly available ways to play matches between >2 computer programs >1) autoplayers >2) chess servers >3) Fritz engine vs engine GUI >4) Winboard interface >5) Kerrigan's interface > >Are there some I missed? > >Kerrigan has the advantage (so he says ) of being able to automate tournaments >between x number of programs. If the others don't adopt this capability, they >will be left behind as more and more programs will gravitate to the interface >that allows automated matches. What say you programmers? 1. To the best of my knowledge, Tom doesn't have such an interface. He has proposed a communication protocol that would make writing such an interface possible. But I'm not aware of his having written the program. 2. The chess server is the most interesting approach, because it offers the most possible games, at the cheapest cost. Designing yet another protocol into a chess program is a headache. Once you can play on ICC, you can play *anywhere*. If you have a unix box, you can even install a mini chess server if you want...
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