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Subject: Re: Winboard to TCP/IP adapter?

Author: Francesco Di Tolla

Date: 04:38:37 03/20/00

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On March 18, 2000 at 01:51:18, Paolo Casaschi wrote:

>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

That's agood idea, but the point was to use this fake engine in programs that
support winboard protocol, like fritz, not for winboard engines only.

regards
Franz




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