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Subject: Re: Play a chess engine online

Author: Sergei Smith

Date: 15:47:02 09/11/01

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On September 11, 2001 at 18:17:17, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On September 11, 2001 at 18:13:31, Sergei Smith wrote:
>
>>I have plans to build a site on which visitors can play against a chess engine
>>in realtime.
>
>Why not just use ICC or FICS?  Is there a reason for a new place to play chess?
>
>>You can play Gnuchess and Amyan and on the Kasparovchess site you can play
>>Junior.
>>
>>Which software is needed apart from the chess program and which are the server
>>requirements (cgi-bin , javascript permissions, allowed file types, etc ) ?
>
>Here is a FICS server source code base:
>ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/chess-utils/fics.1.7.4/

Is that all that is needed to run a server like FICS ?
And it's available, just like that ?
The problem is to find a good free host that will accept all this stuff.
I read http://hypermart.com is one of the best free hosts, but maybe there are
others with even less restrictions.



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