To: Pete Galati

[Gus Dur]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Gus Dur am 05. November 1999 12:59:23:
Please help check Snailchess is faile clone? yes?

[Pete Galati]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Pete Galati am 05. November 1999 16:27:04:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: To: Pete Galati geschrieben von:/posted by: Gus Dur am 05. November 1999 12:59:23:

Please help check Snailchess is faile clone? yes?

I had downloaded Snail, but I no longer have it. In the text that comes with Snail he does say that it is based on Faile but I don't know to what extent. My guess is that it uses Faile's move generator, very likely it also used Faile's xboard.c file. Snail does not use an opening book though while Faile does, so I would assume that it contains some original code.
Faile itself is a nice program, it contains a very very small amount of code and plays a relaxing game. I don't recall anything about any licencing aggreements involved in useing Faile code, but if you have a C compiler I'd definately recomend downloading the Faile source code, it compiles very easily as a Dos program too.
Pete

[José Carlos]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: José Carlos am 05. November 1999 20:24:32:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: Re: To: Pete Galati geschrieben von:/posted by: Pete Galati am 05. November 1999 16:27:04:

Please help check Snailchess is faile clone? yes?

I had downloaded Snail, but I no longer have it. In the text that comes with Snail he does say that it is based on Faile but I don't know to what extent. My guess is that it uses Faile's move generator, very likely it also used Faile's xboard.c file. Snail does not use an opening book though while Faile does, so I would assume that it contains some original code.
Faile itself is a nice program, it contains a very very small amount of code and plays a relaxing game. I don't recall anything about any licencing aggreements involved in useing Faile code, but if you have a C compiler I'd definately recomend downloading the Faile source code, it compiles very easily as a Dos program too.
Pete

I've made several games and it seems to me that Snail is a bit weaker than Faile. Anyway, it sometimes makes the moves predicted by Faile.
José C.