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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