Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 03:47:25 07/08/04
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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 As a quick fix for now, would it be possible to open a few guest accounts on ICC/FICS and relay the darn games from the site - although I guess it is already a bit late.
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