Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:57:06 09/11/01
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On September 11, 2001 at 18:47:02, Sergei Smith wrote: >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. You just need a computer on the internet. Is the source code to the chess server. You just compile it, and off you go. Of course, there are already FICS servers all over the place. I don't know why we would need another.
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