Small Basic AI Championship

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I also believe that everyone should do what they enjoy.
The kids are lost to Small Basic because no school or book author relies on a product that is no longer supported.
However, maybe they can come back if they find interesting projects.
The AI championship would be something like this, for example.
However, I don't think the technical implementation with server and files is recommended because the file system is involved.
If several programs share files, blockages can occur.
I therefore propose a method that is used in the chess world when two chess programs play against each other.
There is a game interface (Arena<->"Nature") which addresses the two competitors directly via an ASCII interface (STDIN/STDOUT) (Dragon<->"RabbitMind" against Stockfish<->"SnakeMind").
However, the commands (UCI) must be precisely defined, which is the responsibility of the game developer.
In the following example I tried to start the engines with LDProcess, which succeeded, but I cannot send any commands because access to STDIN/STDOUT is not possible. If it were possible with LDProcess in a future version of the extension,
a direct exchange between the programs could take place.
The clipboard text is an excerpt from the communication between the ARENA GUI and the chess engine "Dragon".

Code:

'Textwindow.WriteLine( LDProcess.GetProcesses())
engine = Program.Directory + "\engines\dragon\dragon_46.exe" 'Chess-Engine
argu[0] = "uci"
ret1 = LDProcess.Start(engine,argu[0])
Textwindow.WriteLine( "Engine: " + engine + " Return: " + ret1)
Program.Delay(1000)
ret2 = LDProcess.Start(engine,"go")
Textwindow.WriteLine( "Engine: " + engine + " Return: " + ret2)
TextWindow.WriteLine( LDClipboard.GetText())
Program.Delay(10000)
stop1 = LDProcess.Stop(ret1)
stop2 = LDProcess.Stop(ret2)
TextWindow.WriteLine( "engine1 stopped:  " + stop1 + "    engine2 stopped:  " + stop2)