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Subject: Re: Chess engine?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 10:54:43 12/13/02

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On December 13, 2002 at 13:13:54, Hans Schoorlemmer wrote:

>Hi,
>I am in search off a chess engine that can run as a cgi for my chess-page. I
>searched the internet and found very many chess engines, it seems an endless job
>to find a suitable one. i need one that:
>- is written in ansi-c (so i can compile it at the server)
>- is free to use
>- can take from the commandline: the board, max think time, last move from
>opponent and castling status
>- outputs then the move it makes and exits.
>I have made a little attempt to write one myself and that is not going all too
>bad, but i would like to provide a 'serious' engine. If anyone has a suggestion
>i would appreciate.
>Greetings,
>Hans
>PS: my chesspage is at www.browserchess.com

I suggest one of the Java engines.  If you let people run an engine on your
local machine, you will get into trouble when 100 people try it.




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