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Subject: Re: Winboard to TCP/IP adapter?

Author: Paolo Casaschi

Date: 22:51:18 03/17/00

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On March 17, 2000 at 05:49:03, Francesco Di Tolla wrote:
>
>what about writing a fake chess engine that exchanges moves via TCP/IP?
>
>This would allow any winboard eneabled program, that allows eng-eng games, to
>play computer matches agains a remote computer, without need to impletemnt the
>Autoplayer.
>

You can do it in a different way.

Use the /firstHost and /secondHost oprions of WinBoard and you
can have Winboard on a PC running an engine on another PC.
You need to install a rsh deamon on the second PC. A long
time ago I think I found one on www.winfiles.com



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