Author: Andrew Wagner
Date: 18:44:31 07/07/04
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On July 07, 2004 at 21:26:33, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >On July 07, 2004 at 19:50:24, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>I have 2 simple suggestions: >> >>1) Automate the reporting of the results somewhat, and make sure someone >>who has time is able to update the result webpages, add proper PGN and such. >> >>2) Add some kind of Java applet that shows the in-progress games >>in a platform independent manner. This should be easy to do and possibly >>software for it is already available as many human tournaments function in >>this manner. (This is IMHO preferable over ICC/FICS because those do need >>extra firewall openings whereas Java can work over WWW HTTP) >> >>Basically the organization of the tournament looks excellent, but the >>reporting on the net could use some small improvement. >> >>I realize the people not being able to use playchess are a minority but >>I feel such an event should try to cater to the computer chess enthousiasts >>as much as possible since they quite obviously have the greatest interest in >>it. >> >>And they're also the most vocal bunch ;-) >> >>-- >>GCP > >I would really like to see someone (not me ;) write an ICC relayer. > >Thomas over at the winboard forum has done something similar with VB and >specialized client/server programs, but I think it would make more sense (and be >more cross platform, plus we all already have ICS clients) to put it on ICC. >Another possibility would be a mod to Xboard/Winboard, with similar purpose. I >do not think it would be that hard - a few weeks work possibly. > >anthony I've written numerous bots on ICC. That much is easy. The problem is where to relay the moves FROM. The only place the moves are happening live is on PlayChess, and there are two problems with that: 1.) To the best of my knowledge, PlayChess hasn't released any specifications about how to write a progrm to interface with their server. I.E. their interface is the only one usable (in contrast to ICC for which there are at least a dozen interfaces, plus an open standard for writing your own). 2.) For ICC to relay games directly off the Playchess server they would have to either not give PlayChess any credit, which would be extraordinarily rude (I spoke to an ICC admin personally, and he assured me that was the only reason they weren't doing that), or give them credit, which you can hardly expect a competitive business to do. This is a real quandary, and I'm not sure what the solution is. Andrew
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