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This release of the protocol specification is the first to carry a I've had to make the protocolĭescription more precise, I've added some features that GNU Chessĭoes not support, and I've specified the standard semantics of a fewįeatures to be slightly different from what GNU Chess 4 does.

Protocol to be used with other chess engines in the future.Ĭircumstances have changed over the years, and now there are many moreĮngines that work with xboard. Versions of GNU Chess, to make it easier to compare the play of oldĪnd new gnuchess versions. Particularly wanted to keep new versions of xboard working with old

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People to upgrade them together to versions that matched. Xboard and GNU Chess are separate programs, I didn't want to force It might have been good to redesign it early on, but because So the communication protocol is veryĪd-hoc.

Originally, xboard was just trying to talk to the existingĬommand-line interface of GNU Chess 3.1+ and 4, which was designedįor people to type commands to. With typing the on some European keyboards. On WinBoard 4.0.2 and earlier,Ĭtrl+Alt is used in place of Alt this had to be changed due to a conflict Second chess engine in Two Machines mode. Press Shift+2 (Alt+2) instead to send to the This brings up a dialog that you can type While your engine is running under xboard/WinBoard, you can send aĬommand directly to the engine by pressing Shift+1 (xboard) or Alt+1 Key!) see the instructions on shortcut keys in the xboard man page. Is running by binding DebugProc to a shortcut key (and pressing the You can turn debug mode on or off while xboard You can turn debug mode on or off while WinBoard is running by In WinBoard, these messages are written to the file debug flag on xboard's command line to see the messages that areīeing exchanged. To diagnose problems in your engine's interaction with xboard, use the Standard input and writes to its standard output. A WinBoardĬhess engine is a Win32 console program that simply reads from its Microsoft has created just to talk between two programs. You don't have to use DDE, COM,ĭLLs, BSOD, or any of the other infinite complexity that This is, unfortunately, a little more complicated toĭo right than it sounds see section 6 below.Īnd yes, contrary to some people's expectations, exactly the same Reads commands from its standard input and writes responses to its Standard input and the other as its standard output. Sets up the pipes itself and starts the engine with one pipe as its The engineĭoes not have to do anything special to set up these pipes. The list is filtered to prevent spam.Īn xboard chess engine runs as a separate process from xboard itself,Ĭonnected to xboard through a pair of anonymous pipes. The list is now hosted by Yahoo Groups you can join at, or you can read the The mailing list for authors of xboard/WinBoard compatible chessĮngines. I'd like to hear from everyone who is trying to interface their ownĬhess engine to xboard/WinBoard.

If you notice any errors, omissions, or misleading These notes are unpolished, but I've attempted to make them complete In the xboard or WinBoard distribution for more information.

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'Zippy' code into it, but WinBoard includes this code already. In case (2), if you are using xboard, you will need to configure the Interface it to the Internet Chess Server. You have, or are developing,a chess engine, and you want to.You have, or are developing, a chess engine but you don't want to.There are two reasons I can imagine someone wanting to do this: Throughout the notes, 'xboard' means both xboardĪnd WinBoard except where they are specifically contrasted. These notes may be useful if you want to connect a different chessĮngine to xboard. WinBoard use to communicate with gnuchessx and other chess engines. This document is a set of rough notes on the protocol that xboard and Idioms and backward compatibility features Version 2 implemented in xboard/WinBoard 4.2.1 and later.Ĭhanges since version 1 are indicated in red. Chess Engine Communication Protocol Tim Mann