Author: JW de Kort
Date: 07:37:25 06/06/02
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On June 05, 2002 at 10:43:52, Martin Blume wrote: >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 I will do that! Is there a source avaible or some explanation of how to connect to an engine? Thankes Jan Willem
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