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Subject: Re: Testing a Chess Program on the ICS from a PC using an ISP PPP account

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 12:18:46 05/09/98

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On May 09, 1998 at 10:32:08, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:

>xboard and winboard would requier you to be logged on while playing, I
>think he is meaning something running unattended on a shell account,
>like robofics.

This was an interesting post.  I'm not a unix guy so I don't understand
the difference between xboard/zippy and robofics.

If you run winboard/zippy on an NT or Windows '95 system, you don't have
to attend the computer, you can just log it on and go to bed.  Depending
upon how
stable your server is, and how stable your connection is, it might run
for days
before it is disconnected.

Zippy is a module that links in with Winboard.  Its purpose is to
interface a computer with winboard, so the computer can play
automatically on any of the chess servers.

It is pretty easy to write something that works with Zippy, and it would
probably do what Stuart wants.

bruce



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