![]() ![]() Xboard looked pretty good, but as I started to use it I noticed more and Under active development by a team coordinated by Stuart Cracraft, andĪ graphical interface for it called xboard 1.2 that had just been written Time in 1991, I wanted to play a game of chess, so I went looking on the I got started working on xboard by chance: Some Of what you wanted even before writing WinBoard? What is the history of Until the latest development? Did your ideas build one upon another or you Such communication possibilities promote computer chess and an increasingĬould you please explain your concept and trace your ideas starting from the WinBoard that is missing in many commercial programs. Its strength against other programs on the servers. As the Internet cost in Germany is very high this feature is ![]() There is a further reason for the success of WinBoard: the possibility of Perhaps the original authors wanted to compare GNU Chessģ.1 and 4.0, or perhaps to compare GNU Chess running on different kinds At that time, of course, only GNU Chess worked It was present in xboard when I took over work on the program from the The feature itself has been there right from the beginning. Is actually not something that I'm interested in doing myself, so thisįeature of xboard and WinBoard has lagged a bit behind the others inĭevelopment. In those cases I still have to filter the requests through my own tasteĪnd make the new features fit in well with the old ones.Ĭollecting different chess programs and matching them against each other The next best has been to do things that several usersĪsk me for, or to simplify things that several users have problems with. My best guideline in designing features has alwaysīeen to think about the way I would like them to look and work for my Use, have some fun programming, and make the results available so othersĬould use them too. Motivations in starting the project were to produce something I could XBOARD IMAGES SOFTWAREAs with most free software projects, my main Programs? Your reply will be interesting for the fans.Ĭomparing different chess programs was not at all on my mind as I was Nice, technically advanced interface, or perhaps the possibility of What were exactly your motives to create WinBoard? Was it primarily your Programmers choseĪmong other things due to the good documentation and its versatility. It is nowĬompare programs even without the use of autoplayer. Something like this was the main aim of some programmers. To have two programs using the same GUI and pit them against each other isĪttempted multitasking already under DOS, although it was not possible in a So both would have to be supported, probably forever. To make some major revisions, but then of course it would (at best) takeĪ long time for the existing engines to convert over to the new protocol, Grew out of documenting the existing communication with GNU Chess, thereĪre still several bugs and deficiencies in it today. Unfortunately, because the protocol was never really designed, but just The document that exists now (chess-engines.html) evolved directlyįrom the original email reply I sent to Shay. I received so many requests for this information that I was more or lessįorced into documenting and extending the ad-hoc engine protocol to support ![]() I think theįirst person to ask was Shay Bushinsky, in November 1994. XBOARD IMAGES HOW TOGNU Chess, and they began to email me asking how to do it. Thought of the idea of connecting their own chess programs in place of Interfaces for GNU Chess, then for GNU Chess and Internet chess servers.īecause the GUI and the chess engine are separate programs, several people Originally, xboard and WinBoard were simply graphical user No, I had no idea that so many people were interested in writing chess I am very much interested in whether you considered this to be possible then, Have more than 60 WB compatible programs (freeware, commercial, privateware). At the beginning there were only Gnu Chess, Crafty and The Crazy You yourself are probably surprised at the variety of the programs that WinBoard compatible programs can be found on the Internet. The development in the amateur chess area has exploded in the last two See theįrank Quisinsky interviews Tim Mann about XBoard and WinBoardįirst of all, let me tell you that I am very happy to be in the position toĪbout WinBoard and write a report for my my Web pages. I am no longer actively working on XBoardĪnd WinBoard, but others have taken up the mantle. Someone mentioned to me that Frank didn't have this up on Is an interview that Frank Quisinsky did with me for his XBoard Project History Tim Mann's Chess Pages ![]()
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