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I would like to get some feedback from the community of chess programmers
on the idea of a C++ class library for building chess applications.

Are there currently any tools, particularly object-oriented ones, for people
who want to write xboard-like programs? (I'm thinking particularly of Mac and
Windows developers).  My idea is to develop objects to represent PGN and EPDL
files with functions to read and write these.  Other goals include ICS and GNU
interfaces, perhaps using a dummy stream for portability and in particular, for
ICS, consensual lag controls implemented through local clocks and "tell"
interception.  

Would this be useful?  Also, since I don't know much about GNU chess or xboard, could someone tell me functions I might steal from them (for example for PGN support or determining whether a move is legal).

Thanks for any input

Grant
(greaber@u.washington.edu)