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Subject: Re: CAP Phase II

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 13:32:45 05/19/02

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On May 18, 2002 at 22:31:38, Dann Corbit wrote:

>If you are a chess engine author and you would like to include your engine in
>the project, you might look at allowing your engine to process standard EPD
>records in a manner like that possible with Crafty.

Wouldn't it be preferable, to write a WB/Xboard interface that does this?
WB-engines post PVs, scores, best moves, etc. Is there anything missing? The
interface could setup the position, and write the output in a style, you prefer.
And it would all be automatically consistent between engines.

If I do a wc epd* in Crafty 17.13 source directory, I get:

   6282   15049  111832 epd.c
    150     554    5476 epd.h
    747    3223   20542 epddefs.h
   3515   10075   71995 epdglue.c
     37     181    1185 epdglue.h
  10731   29082  211030 total

Over 10000 lines. This is a lot of work for every engine programmer. Perhaps
epd.c is generic, but already the glue code is very big.

Regards,
Dieter




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