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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