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Subject: Re: Making a dedicated autoplayer machine....

Author: Luis Smith

Date: 22:24:47 06/14/03

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On June 14, 2003 at 23:32:15, Joel wrote:

>Hey Everyone,
>
>Just putting together a new machine which I intend using to test my chess
>engine, Bodo.
>
>Suprisingly cheap too, ended up costing me 750 AU dollars for a Athlon 2500+,
>512Meg Corsair, 80 gig hdd, Floppy and CDROM drives, Nforce2 mobo, and a cheapy
>case! A very good time to buy AMD, especially being a low income earning uni
>student like me. :)

Yep I bought a new AMD XP 2200 complete system for $500, but none theless you
got a good deal =O)
>
>But anyhow, I would like to be pointed in the right direction by some
>programmers/engine testers as to how I go about setting up my machine, and my
>engine to play on FICS.

I would like to point you to Aaron Tay's Winboard site.  He has instructions for
setting your engine up to run on Fics/ICC

Here's the link
http://www.aarontay.per.sg/Winboard/Winboard2.html


>
>Currently my engine has limited support of the Winboard protocol. I really have
>no clue what I need to do, how I should register, etc etc.

Go here and go to the left and click on "Register" you can just read the
instructions from there

http://www.freechess.org/
>
>If someone could point me to a few links which give me more information, or give
>a quick overview of what I need to do, I would be most appreciative. I am not at
>all experienced with these online chess playing services!

Like I said Aaron has the best Winboard FAQ around so I'd suggest you look over
everything in it.  I know I had fun reading the site, it took me about 3 days to
read the whole thing...=O)
>
>If anyone is interested, I should be releasing a version of my program in the
>next couple of weeks.

Sounds great!  Can never have enough Winboard engines...

>
>Thanks,
>Joel



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