[Scidvspc-users] Feature request: Play vs WinBoard engines

[Dale H. <dal...@go...>]

Hi guys

I'm loving SCIDvsPC, been using it since switching from SCID just under a
year ago and I do prefer it!

I have a feature request but I'm not entirely sure how feasible it will be.
Can we enable playing against WinBoard engines? I know WinBoard is a dated
protocol, but given the massive amount of WinBoard engines there are around
this could be a really useful function.

At the moment I'm using Wine and the Wb2Uci executable to hook in a couple
of Windows WinBoard engines on my Linux machine but it's very prone to
crashing. It'd be nice if we could just use WinBoard straight - it may even
be more stable.

I'm not a Tcl/Tk or C++ coder so a feature of this complexity is unfeasible
for me to tackle on my own - especially given I no nothing about either UCI
or WinBoard protocols either.

Is this something that is feasible for someone else to tackle?

Kind regards
Dale