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Subject: Re: chess.net, xboard and Linux

Author: Alex Boby

Date: 17:27:19 05/08/01

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On May 08, 2001 at 15:48:57, Frank Phillips wrote:

>If you have successfully connected to chess.net using xboard and accuclock under
>Linux, I would appreciate a HOWTO.
>
>I have managed to connect to fics and ICC with help from CCC, but chess.net
>still eludes me.
>
>Frank

I haven't done this for a while now so I'm not sure if it's changed but you have
to get the linux version of accuclock from chess.net's ftp site, then you run it
and instruct it to listen on a port of your choice, I think it's something like
"./accuclock -p 1000" for port 1000. Then you start xboard and instruct it to
use localhost as the ICS site and you must tell it the port you've setup. I
forget the exact xboard command line syntax for doing that but you can find it
in the help files. After that everything should be OK. Accuclock opens up it's
own telnet session to chess.net to relay your commands.

I hope this is helpful.
Alex



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