Author: Jon Dart
Date: 20:23:22 09/29/03
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Re having an alternate chess server: sure, maybe. But there's a critical mass problem. ICC and FICS succeded because they have a large pool of players and some suitable opponent is almost always available, whatever time of day or night you are online. If you can't get enough participants to achieve that, then it's not likely to catch on, IMO. On a technical note: a version of FICS source was released years ago (on the U. of Pittsburgh site I think) but IIRC it was BSD-based and at the time I couldn't easily get it to run on a commercial UNIX. So you might need to do some hacking on it. Maybe FICS itself has something cleaner, but if so they haven't released it, as far as I know. --Jon On September 29, 2003 at 22:27:48, Steven Edwards wrote: >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?
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