GUI

[Han]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Han at 06 July 2000 10:38:53:
Why not any (of you) programmer come forth and make improvements to WINBOARD?
There is no point in waiting for a winboard that is able to hold swiss or roundrobin tournaments.
Spearhead the development of computer chess!
Cheers to Winboard!
Han
[not a good programmer ]

[lee]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: lee at 06 July 2000 12:47:25:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: GUI geschrieben von: / posted by: Han at 06 July 2000 10:38:53:

Why not any (of you) programmer come forth and make improvements to WINBOARD?
There is no point in waiting for a winboard that is able to hold swiss or roundrobin tournaments.
Spearhead the development of computer chess!
Cheers to Winboard!
Han
[not a good programmer ]

I fully support your idea. Maybe we can have something like Fritz6 gui.
Thanks

[Gábor Szõts]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Gábor Szõts at 06 July 2000 13:56:47:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: GUI geschrieben von: / posted by: lee at 06 July 2000 12:47:25:

Why not any (of you) programmer come forth and make improvements to WINBOARD?
There is no point in waiting for a winboard that is able to hold swiss or roundrobin tournaments.
Spearhead the development of computer chess!
Cheers to Winboard!
Han
[not a good programmer ]

I fully support your idea. Maybe we can have something like Fritz6 gui.
Thanks

Yes we can.
WinBoard is a graphical user interface that makes it possible (among others) that we make chess engines that are compatible with it play against each other. Chess engines of this kind are called WinBoard compatible.
Now there exists a program that is capable to conduct round robin tournaments among WinBoard compatible programs, claiming itself WinBoard compatible: this is ChessVision.
Theoretically, we don't have to do anything but install our engines under ChessVision (this is easy). ChessVision's round robin facility does the rest for us, as soon as we tell him among what engines we want to stage the contest.
In practice, some work is still needed to make the engines and ChessVision fit together fully. This is done by means of cv_.ini files. For some engines they exist already, for the others they could be created pretty easily.
I have already created (or modified) some cv_.ini files (for Crafty, ZChess, ExChess, GNUChess, TCB, Amy, Comet) that seem to work all right. Yes, I have also met difficulties, so I don't claim I'm capable of creating (sometimes even of knowing what I am doing) such a file for each engine. But such failures may well have been caused merely by my inadequacies.
Recently I have been asked if I had already tried to configure YACE for ChessVision. No, but I'll try. And I'd gladly participate in a project for configuring as many engines for ChessVision as possible.
With regards for every one of you,
Gábor

[Han]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Han at 06 July 2000 16:58:49:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: GUI geschrieben von: / posted by: lee at 06 July 2000 12:47:25:

Why not any (of you) programmer come forth and make improvements to WINBOARD?
There is no point in waiting for a winboard that is able to hold swiss or roundrobin tournaments.
Spearhead the development of computer chess!
Cheers to Winboard!
Han
[not a good programmer ]

I fully support your idea. Maybe we can have something like Fritz6 gui.
Thanks

It would be interesting to use a winboard as nice as the Fritz6 gui!
I am still happily waiting (for a day that might never come).
Bye!