Author: JW de Kort
Date: 04:30:53 06/05/02
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On June 04, 2002 at 11:16:19, Andrew Williams wrote: >On June 04, 2002 at 10:52:30, JW de Kort wrote: > >>Hi! >> >>I would like to include in my own program the possibility to play against a >>winboard engine. I suppose this will not be very easy, but can someone give me >>any help on how to communicate with an winboard engine from within my own >>program? Of course i could use winboard but that is not what i want. >> >>I have just started to study the winboard source but can somebody give me hint >>where is should look? >> >>thank in advance >> >>Jan Willem > >Hi, > >Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but I think it would be much easier to just >provide winboard support for your engine >(http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard/engine-intf.html) than to somehow make your >engine mimic winboard's behaviour for some other program. Surely the latter >would involve you doing much of the work that winboard does anyway. Why bother? > >Andrew There are two reasons i want to know: 1, Iám intereser in learning the programming techniques used by winboard 2. I want to test my computer from within my own GUI against a winboard enigine to be able to debug. As far as i know, winboard does not display very much search information on the screen. thanks!
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