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Subject: Re: chess.net, xboard and Linux

Author: Frank Phillips

Date: 12:15:56 05/09/01

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On May 08, 2001 at 20:27:19, Alex Boby wrote:

>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

After starting ./accuclock -p 10000 in a seperate terminal window, this is what
I am using but it does not work.

cd /home/fp/xboard-4.2.3
./xboard -zp -ics -icshost localhost -icsport 10000 \
-fcp /home/fp/searcher/searcher/searcher5 \
-fd /home/fp/searcher/searcher -thinking -ponder -size Medium \
-zippyPassword beer


Any ideas?  Accuclock is version 4.0 (for Linux) from chess.net

Frank



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