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Subject: Re: WinBoard <-> LAN <-> xboard ?

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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