Author: Tim Mann
Date: 12:24:09 11/30/00
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xboard and WinBoard can already a control chess engine running on another machine, talking to it using TCP/IP. All you need is an rsh server on the machine that will be running the engine, to accept WinBoard's command to start up the engine. Unfortunately, although every Unix system today comes with an rsh server, rsh servers aren't common in the Windows world. There are some that come with $100 suites of tools that I don't need, so I haven't tried them, and there are several shareware ones. The last time I looked at shareware rsh servers, none of the ones I could find actually worked -- which is mysterious, since rsh is very simple. Earlier this year Dan Newman sent me a simple version of an rsh server that is designed to do just enough to work with WinBoard. I forgot to try it and put it up on my Web page for download, but I'll go and put it up now (without trying it, sorry). I hope that will help some folks. It will be on http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard.html, at the bottom of the page, as soon as I can get my Web site to update. (I'm having a problem with it right now.) --Tim
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