[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Haskell Chess

[Andrew Wagner]

Sounds great! I can add patches for ICC, as long as your chess-server
code is flexible enough to allow for multiple possible servers. I can
also try to do some testing under windows. I think for this to be
popular, it will need to work there. As for playing on FICS through
telnet...wow, you're a much more patient man than I!

On 3/19/07, Maxime Henrion <mux at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Andrew Wagner wrote:
> > Steffen,
> > I've done some chess AI programming in the past, so I'd be happy to
> > help with this project. I have some pretty fundamental design
> > suggestions that I'll write up for the wiki page.
> >
> > Maxime,
> > Handling different chess engines isn't hard. chess engine
> > communication is pretty standardized - you would just need to add
> > support for the winboard and/or UCI protocols. FICS is a little bit
> > harder, but it's just a pure test stream over a socket, somewhat like
> > IRC, but less defined. ICC (another chess server) has a slightly
> > better-defined protocol. I can get you more details on any of these
> > protocols (except maybe FICS, which I don't think is documented), if
> > you'd like. By the way, how portable is your graphics code going to
> > be?
>
> I haven't yet looked in details at the winboard protocol or UCI,
> but having used crafty and gnuchess in CLI, I have a pretty good
> idea how this is all working, and this is indeed what I intend to
> do.
>
> As for FICS, I have often played on it through telnet, so I have a
> good knowledge of this text-based protocol.  I don't know of any
> standard for FICS, but it isn't strictly required to get something
> working.  I'd be interested in ICC support too, but since it's not
> free, it'll have to wait :-).
>
> As for the portability of the my graphics code, I can just say it's
> GTK+, using Glade XML files, Cairo and SVG on top of Cairo.  All
> of this is supposed to work fine on Windows, if that's what you
> were asking.  I'm not sure about OS X but I think it could also
> work there.  My primary target is UNIX.  For those of you who know
> it, I think BabasChess under Windows sums up what I'd like to obtain
> in the end quite nicely, features-wise.
>
> I'm looking forward receiving your patches! ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Maxime
>
> > Sounds like this will be an interesting project. I look forward to it!
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > On 3/19/07, Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> > >On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 12:14 +0100, Maxime Henrion wrote:
> > >
> > >> I stepped onto your mail and found it particularly interesting since
> > >> I'm currently writing a chess client in Haskell, using GTK+, glade
> > >> and the nice Cairo library :-).  It is called LambdaChess!
> > >
> > >Cool! When you have something you want to show off, we could always do
> > >with more expositions & screen shots etc for the Gtk2Hs website like the
> > >things we've got here:
> > >
> > >http://haskell.org/gtk2hs/archives/category/screenshots/
> > >
> > >
> > >And I'm glad someone is using the new SVG module that got added in the
> > >latest Gtk2Hs release :-)
> > >
> > >Duncan
> > >
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