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Subject: A new FICS exclusively for program authors

Author: Steven Edwards

Date: 19:27:48 09/29/03

I have some spare hardware and bandwidth and I've been thinking of setting up a
free Internet chess server.  Because the spare bandwdith is less than 128 Kbps
and also because of the desire to keep network lag time to a minimum, the FICS
would be limited to use by chess program authors only.  There are already plenty
of non exclusive FICSs and I thought it would be useful for program authors to
be able to use a FICS supporting serious, controlled testing and a high S/N
ratio chat.

Perhaps one of these already exists?  If so, is another needed?

The proposed FICS would be free (as in beer), and game scores would not be
released except to the programs that played the games.  It would run on a
headless Linux x86 machine, so I would need the FICS sources to put it together
quickly.

Is there much interest?

• Re: A new FICS exclusively for program authors Andreas Guettinger 09:00:16 09/30/03
• Re: A new FICS exclusively for program authors Will Singleton 22:24:53 09/29/03
• Re: A new FICS exclusively for program authors Jon Dart 20:23:22 09/29/03
  • Re: A new FICS exclusively for program authors Frank Phillips 10:00:55 09/30/03
    • Re: A new FICS exclusively for program authors Dann Corbit 11:20:41 09/30/03
  • Re: A new FICS exclusively for program authors Steven Edwards 20:58:00 09/29/03
    • Re: A new FICS exclusively for program authors Richard Pijl 00:47:30 09/30/03
      • Re: A new FICS exclusively for program authors Anthony Cozzie 05:34:16 09/30/03
      • Re: A new FICS exclusively for program authors scott farrell 04:59:32 09/30/03
    • Re: A new FICS exclusively for program authors Dann Corbit 21:33:15 09/29/03

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