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Frank Lonigro (franco@bu.edu) wrote:
: 	Does anyone know of a tcl/tk or java standalone application
: that interfaces with gnuchess?  I already know about xboard and Suns
: chesstool.  Are there any others(primarily for Unix)?

I'm currently writing a Tcl/Tk frontend to gnuchess which uses POVray 3.0+
to produce some rather nice rendered chessboard graphics. It even does 
partial updates of the chessboard rather than rerendering the whole lot
after each move, and the user is free to rotate and zoom the chessboard as
desired. I'll be making a beta version available soon, if anyone's
interested. If you're *really* interested, e-mail me and I'll send you the
current source.

But interfacing to gnuchess isn't very hard. Read the CHESSTOOL doc file
in the source distribution if you're interested. As to doing it from
Tcl/Tk, just set up a pipe to gnuchessc or gnuchessx and use gets and puts
to read and send the moves.

Martin

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