From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-03-07T07:25:27+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] GCBoard :  Boardgame API for gtk

Kristof Bastiaensen wrote:
> Hello everybody.
> 
> I have written a library to create Chess-style boardgames with Ruby (and
> gtk)
> (i.e. Draughts, Shogi, Xiangqi, Chess and variants, ...). 
> It works with gtk1.2.
> A demo is included which can play Shogi using the gnushogi engine. 
> If anybody is interested in using this library, please tell me.
> 
> Homepage: http://gcboard.sourceforge.net
> 

That's cool. I'm always in favor of more games.

I'm curious, what about Go and Othello? Aren't they played on
square-oriented boards also? (And isn't Pente a variant of one
of those? Refresh my memory.)

Now if someone would build a monster distributed-chess program...
one where subtrees are farmed out to volunteer-machines via drb.


Cheers,
Hal