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Subject: Re: Why cant Zappa, Diep etc implement as Shredder did? Fritz too ftm.

Author: Matthew Hull

Date: 12:18:56 09/06/05

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On September 06, 2005 at 13:35:21, Richard Sutherland wrote:

>A couple of things:
>
>1. Who said they were "compelled" to do anything? It just seems that having a
>standard protocol that links all chess engines, is desirable.


xboard/winboard is the standard.  One can run matches between machines over a
network connection, or between engines on the same machine, or interface to ICS
compliant chess servers.

>
>2. So, you're saying that all the interfaces should be thrown out and each
>program should produce it's own, proprietary interface? Geee, that's a great
>step in the right direction.


See above.



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