Plugin Specification
Want to write an AI engine to use with Qianhong? It's not too difficult if you have
some programming experience and a Windows/DOS compiler.
It turns out that, with the addition of plugin capability, Qianhong is sort of like
a WinBoard for Chinese Chess. I hadn't heard of WinBoard when I made the plugins, but
the structure is pretty similar: a GUI that uses piped I/O to communicate with AI
engines. Maybe Qianhong will grow into a Xiangqi WinBoard... who knows. From a glance
at the WinBoard site,
though, it appears that WinBoard has been around a long time and has a huge following.
The following pages describe the Qianhong plugin protocol:
The complete plugin spec (in a single, printable HTML file) is included in the Qianhong help manual (under "Program Reference").
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