Author: Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)
Date: 20:38:24 06/29/98
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On June 29, 1998 at 15:41:25, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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? On Mac's, there's an AppleScript interface from Rolf Exner that a number of Mac chess programs support. This only allows games between programs on one machine, however, which has oft-discussed disadvantages. Right now, there are versions of MacChess, Crafty (old), GNUChess and ZZZZZZ that support this interface, and two other programmers have expressed interest. >> >>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... I thought that being Winboard compatible made you server compatible - that Winboard provided a server interface. Not true? Richard
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