Author: Roberto Waldteufel
Date: 01:56:16 09/12/98
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On September 11, 1998 at 21:02:36, Tim Mirabile wrote: >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. Sounds good tome - this way we get the best of both worlds. The usefulness of the method for both small and large scale tournaments (I mean with just two or with many machines available for use) is surely a very desirable feature, as is compatibility with as many different operating systems as possible. I would be interested to hear the thoughts of tournament organisers as well as programmers on this matter (Torsten, KK, Shep - are you listening?....) Best wishes, Roberto
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