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Subject: Re: Configuring WinBoard for FICS

Author: Sergei Smith

Date: 05:56:58 09/18/01

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On September 18, 2001 at 08:01:45, Jonas Cohonas wrote:

>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

What do you mean by "Cable" ? A physical cable you need to plug into your
hardware ? A software tunneling client between ports ?

I seek a method without physical changes to my hardware.



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