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Subject: Re: stefans autoplayer code (where to find)

Author: Hannu Wegner

Date: 10:05:16 11/17/98

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On November 17, 1998 at 08:53:15, Dan Homan wrote:

>On November 16, 1998 at 12:27:36, Rémi Coulom wrote:
>
>>On November 16, 1998 at 12:17:05, Komputer Korner wrote:
>>
>>>On November 16, 1998 at 11:53:52, Rémi Coulom wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 16, 1998 at 11:30:44, Rudolf Posch wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On November 15, 1998 at 21:09:00, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On November 15, 1998 at 14:09:07, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>It was said chessBase used the stefan meyer-kahlen
>>>>>>>autoplayer code to implement the win95 autoplayer in
>>>>>>>fritz/junior.
>>>>>> .......
>>>>>>Thorsten, I have no idea where you found that code, but would you send it to
>>>>>>me (all of it)???  It appears someone translated stuff to English from German,
>>>>>>which would help me no end in getting that to work in Crafty...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Bob
>>>>>
>>>>>Mr. Hyatt,
>>>>>see http://www.gambitsoft.com/utilitie.htm
>>>>>(ftp://gambitsoft.com/pub/utilities/auto232p.zip)
>>>>>The code is part of Mfc_a232.cpp, contained in the zip-file.
>>>>>
>>>>>MfG Rudolf Posch
>>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>I made some bug corrections to this code and added some new functions (like the
>>>>ability to alternate colors automaticaly or trace data exchange). You can take a
>>>Does this mean that 2 windows programs with the built in autoplayer drivers such
>>>as Junior 5, Shredder 2 and Nimzo 98 could play on the same machine, with one
>>>program using com 1 and the other using com 2?
>>>--
>>>Komputer Korner
>>
>>I guess it should work. The only auto232 engines I have are those I wrote, and
>>there is no problem with them. I guess it should work with others. Of course, it
>>is better if you can turn pondering off on a single processor machine.
>>
>>Remi
>
>
>So if we can build an auto232 engine for winboard (an engine that simply
>spits moves back and forth between winboard and auto232), then we can
>play any of these commercial programs on the chess servers with some
>degree of automation?
>
>I've thought about building such an engine for winboard in the past, but
>haven't found the time to do it.  How easy would this be to implement
>using your chess library?
>
> - Dan

Hi Dan,

I suggested this some times! I asked if this wouldn't be a fanatastic feature
when the winauto232-code would be included. You could play autoplayergames and
games with the chess 232-pc-board against all winboardcompatible chessprograms!

Best greetings,
Hannu Wegner



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