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Subject: Re: CCT4: ICC Computer Chess Tournament: Actually 30 participants

Author: Ian Osgood

Date: 10:08:12 11/30/01

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On November 29, 2001 at 11:48:15, William H Rogers wrote:

>On November 28, 2001 at 18:56:31, Russell Reagan wrote:
>
>>When is the final date one can enter a programinto CCT4?
>>
>>Does the program have to be winboard/xboard compliant to play on ICC? Or are the
>>operators entering moves by hand?
>
>The answer is yes. My program is written for dos and can not communicate with
>Winboard or Xboard. All of my moves will be entered by hand. You must just be
>fast and vary careful as not to make a mistake.
>Bill

If you have a Windows or Unix computer available, you might look into supporting
a serial (RS-232) interface to your program.  Writing a small serial Winboard
adapter  plus  a serial protocol in your DOS program is probably easier than
writing code to connect to and parse an ICC connection directly.  I have done
this to play dedicated computers and PDA's on the chess servers.

Ian



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