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Subject: Re: Configuring WinBoard for FICS

Author: Sergei Smith

Date: 01:05:02 09/18/01

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On September 17, 2001 at 18:50:38, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On September 17, 2001 at 16:58:50, Sergei Smith wrote:
>
>>How can you configure WinBoard in such a way that your opponent plays against
>>the WinBoard engine and you do not need to move the pieces with your mouse, and
>>how can you let the WinBoard engine accept automatically every challenge by a
>>FICS member with a rating between 2000 and 2400 ?
>
>You make a "shortcut" for the winboard.exe.
>Then you go to its properties and enter something like this:
>C:\Chess\winboard.exe /cp /zp /fcp "G:\Chess\yourengine.exe" /ics /icshost
>freechess.org
>
>The rating question I can't answer, but I think you have to control that part
>from the server side.
>
>Also don't remember to register the account you will be using as a computer
>account;)
>
>-S.

Can the same be done for the ChessBase / Fritz GUI. i.e. to connenct it to FICS
so that I do not need to move the pieces myself with the mouse ?



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