Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:13:48 01/20/03
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On January 20, 2003 at 19:54:44, Peter Skinner wrote: >>I didn't have to do anything, you were the one who said: >> >>"I think that if a program is automated is enough to play in the next CCT. If >>not then we might have the same result." >> >>Making it automated is the big job, kibitzing isn't. >> >>And I actually doubt the job is very big at all, they had two month to copy >>paste the code from winboard. >> >>I think the reason they weren't there was because _they decided_ not to be >>there, certainly not because the rules made it impossible for them. >> >>If you think otherwise you really are insulting their programming skills. >> >>-S. > >Actually making it "automated" over the internet is as simple as attaching it to >the winboard autoplayer adapter for Chessbase products. Getting that to kibitz >is an entirely different matter. > >Do you know what language Fritz, Junior, or Shredder are written in? Maybe it >_isn't_ an easy job to make it automated over the internet. If it was, don't you >think they would have already done it? Shredder was winboard compatible at one >point. Why not now? He chose to push UCI. If a program doesn't encapsulate the engine separately from the GUI, it is a bad design. If it is encapsulated properly, then adapting to different interfaces is not hard. I use winboard/xboard, plus I have my own custom interface. It was _not_ a difficult project... > >I am not the one being insulting. You are. I don't know about insulting, but "making a mountain out of a molehill" comes to mind. This is _not_ a hard project. Users are demanding it. It would even be profitable to have a server interface.
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