On 12/16/10 18:47, M Winther wrote: Hi!
> There exist many databases for chess, but not a single one for > Xiangqi, Chinese Chess. I can understand that chess aficionados don't > like to promote a competing game, but it's kind of absurd how much > energy of developers goes into chess whereas very little is devoted to > Xiangqi. After all, Xiangqi is the world's most popular game, Well, than it has far more human resources at it's disposal than chess. Surely such a large users base can come up with something. But, probably nobody needs a database for it, so nobody did it. > and opening knowledge is even more important in that game. For instance, > how difficult would it be to adapt Scid to Xiangqi? Xiangqi has 90 > squares instead of 64, and the pieces move differently, except the > rook. Otherwise the same principles apply. Given that it seems quite an effort to adapt Scid to Chess960 where you'd need to adopt only one rule (castling), plus this rule is even a superset of what Scid can already do, I fear it is impossible to change all rules. Tow games are not similar simply cause they are played on a wooden board by moving pieces ;) But you might give it a try. Our source is free under GPL. > Such an effort would mean much more than chess software > projects. If Scid was Xiangqi instead, it would be the leading > Xiangqi software So what? It would be useless for all our current users. Would be a sad thing. IMHO. > in the world, attracting much traffic and generate > income from advertising. We do not want to generate any income. Scid is free, open source software. Commerce is for the other part of the world. Money means nothing. cu Alexander ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
