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Subject: Re: What is "Winboard" ?

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 12:00:12 07/15/99

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On July 15, 1999 at 11:49:15, John R. Menke, Sr. wrote:

>Greetings!
>
>What is "WINBOARD"?  I see it mentioned frequently, but have never run
>across an explanation.  Is it software?  Is it hardware?  What does it do?
>Where can you buy it, or download it?  Please clue me in...
>
>Thanks!
>--JRM

The other replies list the web address for Winboard so I won't repeat it again,
I would like to say that I think you'll like haveing Winboard because it will
allow you to use many Chess programs that use Winboard as an interface, it just
opens you up to many more Chess programs that you didn't have before. Some of
those programs are very strong.

I resisted getting Winboard at first but (at the risk of sounding cult-like) I
was wrong, it's great.

So you may at first have a little bit of trouble with it because you need to
edit the winboard.ini file to get the Chess engines running, but people here are
willing to help with that.

Winboard can be used for many more things than I actually use it for, I only
scratch the surface myself.

Pete



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