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Subject: Re: TSCP for Mac, ExaChess?

Author: William Bryant

Date: 16:44:03 09/13/99

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>I know we talked about this before, but tell me again.  Can your engine play
>another engine (zzzzzz for example) under ExaChess 2.0, using its autoplay
>feature?  If so, does it work well, or is it buggy?
>
>Will

Screamer plays itself under the Exachess interface will.  (I have not yet
implemented pondering so it does wrestle with itself for control of the
the CPU).  The problem I had with ZZZZZZ and the Crafty port is that the
time controls were not strictly observed.  I also had occasional bugs in
there messages (not that my didn't requre a lot of debugging).

The only difficult now, is that Exachess 2.0 has difficulty with draw by
insufficient material- to be fixed in the next update.

Overall, I like it a lot as a way to test changes in Screamer until I have time
to implement the ICC interface for on line testing.

BTW, I use PowerPlant for the interface, and the Exachess code is implemented in
conjunction with PowerPlant handling of Apple Events.

William
wbryant@ix.netcom.com



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