Author: Alex Boby
Date: 19:56:28 05/09/01
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On May 09, 2001 at 15:15:56, Frank Phillips wrote: >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 how does it not work? does it give you any errors? try connecting to port 10000 yourself and see what happens,.. should be the same as what you get if you use 'telnet chess.net 5000'. Otherwise I don't know what could be the problem, it always worked for me. Alex
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