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Subject: Re: Ed's Programmer Stuff

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 23:39:17 02/07/03

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On February 08, 2003 at 01:51:42, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On February 07, 2003 at 13:11:19, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>On February 07, 2003 at 09:11:12, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>[snip]
>>>I'm still a big fan of the old Rebel-Decade release; I keep on using this
>>>program as a sparring partner for comet. It plays quite attractive chess and in
>>>addtion has got an interesting book.
>>>The GUI is nice, and the program runs smoothly under windows. I can't really
>>>understand why a windows-GUI should be a "must".
>>
>>Wish more would agree with you :)
>
>How about a version that understands Winboard commands?  That would be the best
>of all worlds.

Do you mean a DOS program which understands winboard commands, Dann ?

I doubt that's really useful, because you need these special pipe-functions from
the win-library in order to poll correctly for input while pondering. I'm afraid
that a DOS engine would sooner or later "hang", just waiting for input. A long
time ago I had tried this.

Uli





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