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Subject: Re: auto232

Author: Frank Schneider

Date: 13:59:44 09/10/98

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On September 10, 1998 at 07:13:57, Peter Herttrich wrote:

>On September 09, 1998 at 18:03:48, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:
>
>>	It seems that now it is arising a debate about the importance of auto232
>>support among chess engines, in part due to the decision of Ed Schroeder of
>>removing it from Rebel.
>>	Not so long ago, I asked where auto232 was documented, and Mr. Torsten Schoop
>>was kind enough to send me his sources of auto232.
>>	I have been studying them, and I have some questions:
>>What are the requirements of auto232?
>>Does it need a PC?
>>Does it require windows 95/98/NT?
>>	I ask these questions because I do not use PC's (in fact only recently I have
>>realized how vast the PC world is), and I am planning to write a chess engine,
>>mainly for Sun SparcStations running under Solaris (it is difficult for me to
>>support other platforms, as I have no access to them). I think I can switch to a
>>PC running under Solaris too, but moving to Windows only to write a chess engine
>
>Use Linux, and you have the best operating system on the pc.
>and if u work like Bob, the code can be compiled also on solaris.
>I really would like to see one more chessprogram on UNIX/Linux !

Soon a xboard/WinBoard-Version of Gromit will be released for Linux and
Windows! Have a look at
http://home.t-online.de/home/hobblefrank

This is the engine that played in Torsten's Summer98a-tournament and I hope
it is stronger than Gromit 1.2.

>Also take a look at xboard, then u only have to work at in the
>engine.
>
>Peter
>
>
>>would be too much.
Frank



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