Looking into creating a Native Client port of GnuChess

[Matthew Ball]

Hello Simon, et al,

I wanted to let you all know that I've created a clone of GnuChess 5.08 on github (see https://github.com/heisencoder/gnuchess) and am investigating the feasibility of porting this program to Native Client (see http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient), or NaCl for short.

NaCl is a new technology that allows a web browser (currently Google Chrome only) to securely run code that is compiled directly for the native processor (like x86).  This allows universal portability on all platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows) by only compiling the code once, and giving it a portable _javascript_ front-end.

NaCl is currently in early alpha phases, so things will likely change in the near future.  Currently, there is no support for File I/O access, so part of the porting effort is to remove these dependencies.

Cheers,

-Matt