Author: Tim Mirabile
Date: 18:02:36 09/11/98
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On September 11, 1998 at 18:33:47, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >You are right that a third machine acting as an arbiter should be optional, for >people who run the games in their house. But for a tournament it is neccesary. >Also, you do not need a third machine for every game, you only need one machine >as an arbiter for all the games (and it could very well be and old machine). Why not make that central machine a FICS server? Communication between machines would be via TCP/IP, and this would work on just about all OS'es, in LAN's and on the Internet. And it would mean that any program which supported this would also include FICS/ICC support. With proper programming of a tournament manager running on the FICS server, and with the programs accepting standardized commands via "tell", a fully automated round-robin (or even a swiss if the manager could do swiss pairings automatically) would be a piece of cake. A facility for running on only two machines could also be included in the code.
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