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

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 11:09:02 12/01/01

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On November 30, 2001 at 13:08:12, Ian Osgood wrote:

>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.
>

Another option and perhaps easier could be to link it through a epd file. At
least CA support this (not tried by me.

Odd Gunnar



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