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Subject: Re: Configuring WinBoard for FICS

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 07:20:41 09/18/01

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On September 18, 2001 at 08:56:58, Sergei Smith wrote:

>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.

You need a physical null modem cable in order to make chessbase engines run
automated on chess servers, the cable costs about 20$ and are easy to use, it
can function between two comps aswell (if you have more than one comp) so you
can make two comps play eachother.
Using a cable is the only way to make CB engines work automated AFAIK.

Regards
Jonas



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