[gcompris-devel] Re: chess

[pgeorges]

You can find information on the xboard protocol at : 
www.tim-mann.org/xboard/engine-intf.html

As crafty and gnuchess works with xboard, I suppose the protocol did not 
change recently. More over, the chess board should work the same way 
with gnuchess or with crafty (they use the same protocol).

Pascal

Bruno Coudoin wrote:
> You are correct, I checked the FAQ and gnuchess5 is a complete  rewrite
> of gnuchess4.
> Unfortunatly, it is incompatible with gnuchessx and requires a port of
> gcompris chess :(
> 
> I started to look at it but it can take times...
> 
> Bruno.
> 
> 
> Le lun 14/10/2002 à 18:37, pgeorges a écrit :
> 
>>bruno wrote:
>>
>>
>>>For gnuchess vs gnuchessx, I checked on my mandreke 9 and gnuchessx is
>>>no more distributed in the 3 DL CDs.
>>>gnuchess is a different executable than gnuchessx and cannot be used to
>>>my knowledge as a replacement. I don't know what happened to gnuchessx
>>>and what is its future.
>>
>>For me, gnuchess (5) replaces gnuchessx (4) : gnuchess (5) can be used 
>>with xboard (avalaible in Mandrake 9.0), showing it can communicate 
>>using xboard protocol. So gnuchess should also be used with gcompris, 
>>the same way.
>>
>>Pascal
>>