Author: Will Singleton
Date: 22:24:53 09/29/03
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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? Sounds like it's worth a try. The existing servers do a pretty good job, but it's possible that an author-only server might catch on. Don't know. Will
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