Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:26:50 04/18/00
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On April 18, 2000 at 08:20:56, Laurence Chen wrote: >On April 18, 2000 at 00:46:18, Harald Faber wrote: > >>..., to stop these endless autoplayer232-discussions, accusations and insults, >>don't you, the programmers, just go and write LAN-support for your programs? >> >>Or do you fear that there will be accusations of betray again >As Robert Hyatt suggested, nowadays, internet and network connection is the way, >and a new protocol which would allow computers play through a network/internet >would be the best alternative. Until someone steps forward and creates this new >protocol, Auto 232 will be the only way to play chess games between two >computers. >Laurence The protocol and interface is _already_ done. It is called winboard or xboard, depending on the O/S you like. It will run matches automatically, it will run one program on one host, another program on a different host; it will run both programs on the same host (ugh). If you don't have a network (IE 10baseT or whatever) you can null-modem two machines, establish a PPP connection, and _still_ use winboard to play matches. It has been working for many years... plus it allows anyone to test their engine on a chess server also...
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