Idea of extending gnuchess with interface for an (emotional) avatar!

[Christian Becker]

Hello Gnuchess-Developers!

At first:
I am happy and thankful that I found gnuchess as a living opensource 
chess project. Thank you!

About me:
I studied Computer Science at the University of Bielefeld (AI Group) and 
wrote my Master Theses about "The Simulation of the Emotion Dynamics of 
an artificial humanoid Character", which is being developed here in our 
Group. (www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/ags/wbski/welcome.html)

My concern (idea):
I want to extend the capabilities of MAX (Multimodal Assembly eXpert) to 
be able to play chess. Further more, I want to feed my emotional system 
with the actual appraisal-values of gnuchess!

My Questions:
Is there anybody else out there working on such an idea???
Wouldn't that be a "nice-to-have"?
What about a standard interface for that purpose?

It would be nice, to here from you,
best regards,
Christian Becker

PS: You might also take a look at: www.emomax.de (-;