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Subject: Re: Winboard protocol in my own program

Author: Martin Blume

Date: 07:43:52 06/05/02

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On June 05, 2002 at 07:30:53, JW de Kort wrote:

>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!

Hi Jan Willem!

You may give my GUI "Arena" a try. It is compatible to winboard protocol version
1 and displays more information than winboard and has a debug window. Look on
"www.playwitharena.com".

Martin Blume





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