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Subject: Re: SMIRF licencing

Author: gerold daniels

Date: 19:09:33 01/13/06

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On January 13, 2006 at 20:49:36, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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.

Thanks again Dann.

Gerold.




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