Hi,

I would like to find out more about chess engines from the programmer's
point of view. Are there any general specifications that allow me to
create an engine that can be loaded by the common front ends? I could
not find much about this on the web, does anyone know anything about
this?

Kind regards,

Olli

On 25 May 2006 09:06:51 -0700, "Oliver Witt"
wrote:

Hi,

I would like to find out more about chess engines from the programmer's
point of view. Are there any general specifications that allow me to
create an engine that can be loaded by the common front ends? I could
not find much about this on the web, does anyone know anything about
this?

Kind regards,

Olli

If you want to make your engine compatible with common front ends, you
have to make your engine use either the WinBoard protocol or the UCI
protocol (or both protocols, if you feel ambitious).

The Winboard protocol is described he
http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard/engine-intf.html

The UCI protocol is described he
http://www.chessbase.com/download/in...at=UCI-Engines

Tony

Thanks a lot, that helped!
Olli

Oliver Witt wrote in message
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Hi,

I would like to find out more about chess engines from the programmer's
point of view. Are there any general specifications that allow me to
create an engine that can be loaded by the common front ends? I could
not find much about this on the web, does anyone know anything about
this?

Kind regards,

Olli

If you need some good articles on theory:

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/pro...atures/chess1/

http://www.frayn.net/beowulf/theory.html

http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/ProgrLinks.html