Re: [eboard-users] email games

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Michael P. Soulier wrote:

>     Hello,
>
>     I'm a long time xboard/cmail user, and I was wondering if it is
> possible to use eboard for email games by exchanging PGN files? Xboard
> has full integration for this, to where I can send the email from a menu
> option in xboard, and I can pipe the response to cmail with my email
> client. Can eboard do this?

Hi,

No, eboard can't do this. I never played chess by email, thus I don't know
how the automation goes (when you receive your opponent's move, where does
it get saved ?)

It shouldn't be hard to implement, I just never thought of anything like
this.

-- Felipe