Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 22:16:42 11/13/97
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On November 13, 1997 at 00:46:31, Andy McFarland wrote: >I am publicly testing the not completed ZIICS 2.00 interface for Windows >and ICC. Go to www.mindspring.com/~amcfar/ziics for the current >version. Is there any interest in a version of ZIICS that could >communicate with a chess playing program, and relay moves by a TCP/IP >connection, or a null modem, or through the ICC? This would certainly >facilitate SSDF testing. > >Is there any standard protocol for relaying moves from a chess playing >program to an interface program? > >Andy I am definitely interested. Auto232 is the only semi-standard now, but it doesn't do error-checking, is cumbersome to set up, and has different problems with different programs. As far as I know it was originally done from the outside in, by putting keystokes into the programs buffer, and taking over the Standard I/O to reroute the "displayed" info to the serial port. So a different driver has to be written for each program. If you can convince a majority of the programmers to agree to an interchange protocol (perhaps ICS or a superset or subset thereof), and implement an ergonomic product that, for example, alternates sides in a multi-game match, allows for restarting interrupted games, makes sure both programs are ready if it is a new game, tests the connection and reports on both sides, controls the clock and updates the programs, and interfaces to ICC and FICS/Chessnet, I'd buy it in a flash, and I don't think that I'm the only one. kp
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