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Subject: Re: SMIRF Beta now in three Languages (ger/eng/swe)

Author: Reinhard Scharnagl

Date: 09:31:14 07/01/05

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On July 01, 2005 at 11:33:34, David Dahlem wrote:

>On July 01, 2005 at 10:09:45, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:
>
>>Hello 8x8 and 10x8 chess fans,
>>
>>by the help of chessfriend Hans Eriksson SMIRF now supports a third language
>>(download at [http://de.geocities.com/rsmuenchen/] ).
>>
>>It is recommended to request an all enabling testing key via the supported email
>>link.
>>
>>Reinhard.

>Will the Smirf engine work in other interfaces, as WB or UCI engine?

Hi Dave,

as I have explained already often: a) UCI still is not officially supporting
Chess960, b) Winboard has contradicting rules for to encode castlings and makes
artificial distinctions between 'normal', 'nocastle' and 'fischerandom', which
could be completly covered by supporting X-FEN strings.

Smirf is a system of GUI and engine which is able to play 8x8 and 10x8 chess
downward compatible variants. There is no multi-engine GUI known to me, which
would support such geometries and the capablanca piece set.

But if there would be an Chess960 covering extension of the UCI protocol I
think, that Smirf will have soon an UCI enabled twin.

Nevertheless I am planning to support a new remote chess protocol to enable
competitions also between different 10x8 chess programs.

Regards, Reinhard.



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