Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 03:50:25 11/08/05
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On November 08, 2005 at 05:38:09, Uri Blass wrote: >On November 08, 2005 at 05:14:39, Sedat wrote: > >>Hello Tord, >> >>Can i use Scatha 0.2.10 under Winboard,Arena and Fritz GUI ? > >No for 2 reasons: >1)These interfaces do not support the game that Scatha is playing that is not >chess. Correct. And even if they did, Scatha can't play normal chess, and therefore couldn't participate in Sedat's tournaments in any case. >2)As far as I understood scatha is only for the Mac OS X so it is probably not >relevant for most readers that have not the relevant hardware. This is not entirely correct. Like Glaurung, the Scatha engine is open source and should compile easily on all platforms. The problem is that there is no GUI for other platforms. >I guess that people may be more interested in scatha if Tord make it work on >computers that most people use. Without a doubt, but it won't happen. I cannot use the computers most people use, which makes it impossible to develop for them. There is a small possibility that I will eventually write a Linux GUI, but Windows is completely out of the question. >Even in that case people are probably to be more interested in Glaurung and not >in Scatha because normal chess is clearly more popular than the game that Scatha >is playing. Probably, but this is not entirely clear. For normal chess, there are lots of programs which are stronger, more interesting, and have more features. This is not the case for hexagonal chess. The download statistics from my home page gives some clues. The Scatha engine executable is not available as a separate download (but only bundled with the GUI and Glaurung Mainz), but I can compare how often the source codes have been downloaded. From the 22nd of September to November the 7th this year, Glaurung's source code was downloaded 186 times, while Scatha's source code was downloaded 66 times. Tord
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