Re: gnuchess/xboard protocol

Hans Eric Sandström <[email protected]> Fri, 19 May 2006 17:13:52 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.chess.announce
Message-ID <008901c67b56$d6dba2c0$f00016ac@kickipc>
Hey,

The xboard protocol originates from the interfaces of the really old BSD=20
chess program that preceedes gnu chess.

But the source code for gnuchess 3 or 4 is still out there so you only ha=
ve=20
to look there for it. The stuff is in the file nondsp.c

/Hans Eric Sandstr=F6m

----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Simon Waters (GNU)" <[email protected]>
To: "Ethan A Burns" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: gnuchess/xboard protocol


> Ethan A Burns wrote:
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>> It would appear that gnuchess 4.0 does not support ping/pong.  I would=
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>> my engine to work with both 4 and 5.   Is there any other tricks that =
I=20
>> may
>> not know?
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> We gave up supporting GNU Chess 4 before I even became a co-maintainer.
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> Afraid you are definitely on your own with that one.
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