Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: I still have problems with kibitzing

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 00:49:50 01/14/03

Go up one level in this thread


On January 14, 2003 at 03:37:03, Uri Blass wrote:

>On January 14, 2003 at 03:32:34, Sune Fischer wrote:
>
>>On January 14, 2003 at 03:22:20, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>I now see that I cannot play games under winboard
>>>
>>>Winboard always give me a box in automatic comp-comp games under winboard(games
>>>on one computer).
>>>
>>>I thought that winboard ignore tellall information when I play under winboard
>>>but it does not do it.
>>>
>>>I guess that I need to implement something that tell me if I play under winboard
>>>or not
>>
>>You mean if you are connected to a chess server or not?
>>
>>There is an ICS command in winboard, from the protocol:
>>
>>"ics HOSTNAME
>>If HOSTNAME is "-", the engine is playing against a local opponent; otherwise,
>>the engine is playing on an Internet Chess Server (ICS) with the given hostname.
>>This command is new in protocol version 2 and is not sent unless the engine has
>>enabled it with the "feature" command. Example: "ics freechess.org" "
>>
>>-S.
>
>Do you say that the only way to play as an automatic player with kibitching and
>also to support winboard so that Movei can play games automatically under
>winboard is to support that command?
>
>Uri

OI can add that I will do it but the point was that I believed that implementing
kibitz command is easy under winboard and I even read that it is only 3 minutes
if I am a slow typer.

It is clearly more than it.

Uri



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.