Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:48:17 11/10/02
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On November 09, 2002 at 16:25:15, Russell Reagan wrote: >On November 09, 2002 at 16:13:01, pavel wrote: > >>Is it a winboard tournament or computer chess tournament? >>Leo already runs a winboard tournament where only winboard compatible engine can >>play, why bother to run yet another tournament? >> >>If your opinion is taken seriously than none of the chessbase engine and any >>commercial or private engine which are not winboard (or perhaps UCI) compatible >>(and trust me there are alot of them), won't be able to play. >> >>Bad rule. > >This rule also makes the requirement that your program has to be written in >certain languages, such as C/C++, Delphi, Pascal, etc. If someone writes their >program in, say, BASIC or maybe Scheme or some other language that won't work >with Winboard or Arena, they're out. Or they have to write ICS communication >code in BASIC (yuck). Maybe someone thinks the Winboard and Arean GUI's suck so >they wrote their own, and didn't have the extra time to write ICS communication >code. This is incorrect. _any_ compiled language (and basic is a compiled language) that can read stdin and write to stdout can work with winboard/xboard. There is no language/library requirements. And since every application typically writes to stdout and reads from stdin, any .exe should be able to work just fine... Interpreted languages (ie perhaps some javas that don't have a real compiler) might have a problem of course... > >I agree. This rule would rule out a lot of people. I also don't think we should >make assumptions that everyone has the latest greatest stuff. Some people think >a 386 and BASIC are the latest greatest thing, and I don't think we should >assume that every chess programmer uses C/C++ and Windows or Unix. What if >someone wants to enter their Palm chess program? > Write a interface for it and it is welcome. But doing things manually is simply an outdated idea. And eventually something has to be declared dead and left behind... >Russell
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