Author: Thomas Mayer
Date: 09:34:27 01/13/04
Hi, this is mainly for those engine programmers that can't so far play at CCT because they can't connect automatically and can't kibitz according to the rules. They only thing they should be capable of is now to play via auto232 - I will explain you the rest: Thanks to Remi Coulomb there is a nice auto232-adapter with source available. I did some modifications to it: Before the engine makes the move (and the adapter gets it via auto232 it must write a textfile where the informations are put in which it wants to send, like kibitz etc. When my modified auto232-adapter gets the move via the seriel port it first takes a look if a textfile exists and then sends the info to winboard. After that it deletes the file so that the engine can write a new one for the next move. This way it should be very easy for all uci-engines, chessbase-engines, whatever to play at CCT - they can use there GUI of there choice and must just take care that the engine writes some info each move and that they can use auto232-protocol. You can download the package with a bigger explanation here: http://www.quarkchess.de/quark/auto232CCT.zip If you have troubles - just contact me via eMail... you can also have the modified source if needed... Greets, Thomas
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