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Smirf:
Hi Martin, all the best to you and Australia (just heared about a mining rescue wonder)! I just had started your chess playing program. It is fine that its GUI is fully resizable, a feature still missing in SMIRF. How to use it exactly, still is not quite clear to me. Probably there have to be other participants. Also my firewall seems to be an obstacle. Good progress to your project! Reinhard.

martyjn:
Yeh it is only for two player connection and most firewalls to stop it its one of the obsticles that i have to overcome.It can be played on a single machine by opening two coppies going Socket->Server on one then Socket->Client on the other and using LocalHost as the server name on the client (this is the loopback adress).This is the way i test it.It is only usable inside a firewall that can be disabled.It will also work on a Lan that uses Tcp/ip.

Smirf:
Hi SMIRF fans!

Now when there is also a German language update 2 to Borland Developer Studio 2006, I have placed a newly improved and recompiled beta version of SMIRF Chess at my site.

Regards, Reinhard.

Smirf:
Hi, Chess960 and 10x8 Chess fans,

today I have placed a newly improved chess engine for download at my site.

Moreover I try to finish translations of added documents into English language.

Regards, Reinhard.

marcsl:
Hello Reinhard,

I've had a chance to play SMIRF, what a terrific chess program.
I liked it, and on my first game I beat the computer, wow that
made me feel very proud. (at least for a little while, I'm not
usually very good at chess).
Here is how the game ended I was white.

 

Blacks king had no where to go!

Now there are just two issues about the program,
why the need two have to keep going into the help
menu to press "keep testing"? is that a necessity?

Also the screen does blink, it's not a real big deal,
but after awhile it does become a distraction.

It looks like you are drawing the image on a bitmap,
or are you using a TPaintBox at all?
If you are creating it on a Bitmap and then drawing it
to the form canvas, I don't see why it should blink. hmm...

But these are minor issues the game is very enjoyable, it's a
great chess program.  good work.
Regards,
Marc 

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