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In article <31F7E0C5.218D@icf.hrb.com> Michael Kerry <msk@icf.hrb.com> writes:
> Can anyone give me a hint as to how to go about writing a perl script to
> act as an interface to gnuchess?  I am not concerned with a graphical
> interface at this point, just the mechanics of inputing moves to the
> gnuchess engine and then receiving responses.  
> 
> I tried fiddling around with opening a handle to "gnuchessc |" and
> reading from it (which seemed to work), but then how do you input moves?
> Is there a bi-directional pipe?!?  Surely there's a more clever way...
> 
> Yes, this is a silly thing to want to do, but I'm doing it more to learn
> perl rather than to write a gnuchess interface, since there's already a
> bunch out there.

I've already done all this at http://www.delorie.com/game-room/chess/

About 2500 games are started each week (~250-425 per day).  The
computer wins around 80% of the games that are played to completion.

To connect to gnuchess, open *two* pipes, fork, use open(STDIN,
">&PIPE1") (etc) to connect the other sides of the pipes to
stdin/stdout, then exec("gnuchess").  Don't forget to set $| on the
pipes.  Also, try open2().