Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:49:36 01/13/06
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On January 13, 2006 at 20:43:10, gerold daniels wrote: >On January 13, 2006 at 18:15:36, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On January 13, 2006 at 18:13:13, George Tsavdaris wrote: >> >>>On January 13, 2006 at 18:07:46, David Dahlem wrote: >>> >>>>On January 13, 2006 at 15:58:57, Robert Hollay wrote: >>>> >>>>>Shareware. Test SMIRF free until 2006-01-31. >>>>>What will happen after that date? >>>>>I looked around the SMIRF site, but didn't quite understand it's licencing >>>>>model. Part of the text is written in German, especially the shareware licence. >>>>>What should we do to get it permanently? >>>>>I find it's an interesting GUI + Eng. Is the goal to make it commercial? >>>>> >>>>>Best, Robert >>>> >>>>It's my understanding the engine will not work in any other interfaces, only the >>>>SMIRF interface. Is this correct? >>>> >>> >>>Correct for the moment. I'm trying to convince him to change this....:-) >>> What i think he prevents him from doing this is that there is no other GUI that >>>supports 10x8 Chess variants and this is one of the strong points of Smirf, so >>>this will not show real Smirf's capabilities....Of course he may clear this up >>>better...... >> >>There is an excellent free open source interface that supports all kinds of >>chess variants, including large boards. It also comes with its own chess >>engine. >> >>http://sourceforge.net/projects/chessv/ > >Thanks Dann for this link. Very interesting. I just built one. If you want to build with the latest version of MS VC++, you will need my changes. Here is the source and binary: http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new-approach/chessv.zip It crashes once in a while. I may spend some time to chase the bugs down.
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