[XBoard-devel] Re: xboard and lectures

[Tim Mann]

It sounds like a nice feature.  I don't have time to code it personally,
but I'll pass your suggestion on to the other folks on the developers
mailing list.  Also, if you're interested in coding it yourself, feel
free to take a swing at it and see what you come up with.

On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 00:31:02 +0300, Nikos Karampatziakis <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear Mr. Mann,
> 
> I am an xboard user and I really like this software but I think it's
> missing the feature of a "lecture player". On internet chess servers 
> such as fics or icc there are bots that do lectures by playing back a 
> script file that contains moves, comments _and_ commands to back up a 
> number of moves. Unfortunately, for some of us staying online all this 
> time to watch a lecture is not feasible and not being able to play it 
> back is also another bad thing about those lectures. Chess lectures used 
> by fics's LectureBot (http://www.freechess.org/~toddmf/lecbot.html) are 
> downloadable from the above page and they are in a very straightforward
> format that is already supported by other applications such as iNemesis 
> for Windows (which has implemented this kind of "lecture player"). I 
> think Xboard should also support the playback of these lecture files. I 
> am looking forward to hearing your opinion about this.
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> 
> Nikos Karampatziakis.
> 


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