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Subject: Re: Configuring WinBoard for FICS

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 05:01:45 09/18/01

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On September 18, 2001 at 04:05:02, Sergei Smith wrote:

>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 ?

At my homepage i made a section called "how to" which covers how to run
Chessbase engines automated on chess servers, using only one comp.

http://www.geocities.com/vainot/BetaChess.html

Regards
Jonas




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