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Subject: Viability of Linux as Chess Platform

Author: Robert Pawlak

Date: 14:58:34 07/20/99

I'd be interested to hear what some of the people directly involved with the
development of chess software think about Linux.

Specifically, do you think that it is now/will be a platform worth developing
for. From a layman's standpoint, I would think that it would not be too
difficult to port an engine written in ANSI C over to Linux, then use Tkl or
something like it to build an interface.

Also, do you think that the development tools are sufficiently mature to
undertake something like this?

But, I realize that not all engines are coded in C... As a side question, what
is the percentage of chess engines coded in C, and in assembler?

Bob P.

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