Author: Rémi Coulom
Date: 00:41:59 11/03/00
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On November 03, 2000 at 02:55:50, Gregor Overney wrote: >According to a readme file (I forgot the source, but I think it was on Tim >Mann's web-page), if you want to play between two computers over LAN, you need >to install a Chess-Server. > >1) Where can I get the source of a chess server that works with either Winboard >or xboard 4.1? > >2) If I cannot get a chess server, did someone already write a TCP-based wrapper >to make two computer systems play chess using any winboard/xboard compliant >chess engine? > >Thanks, > >Gregor You can play winboard games on a network without a server if you use the following options which you will find documented in the "Chess Engine Options" section of WinBoard's help file: /fh or /firstHost host /sh or /secondHost host You might have trouble to get it to work if you are running Windows though, but I am not an expert. I think anyway that all existing chess servers are unix-based. Rémi
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