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Subject: Re: A new FICS exclusively for program authors

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 09:00:16 09/30/03

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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?

I would go there, for the chatting. I really miss a CCC Chat (CCCC) where one
can ask programming questions.
But maybe it does exist already?

regards
Andy



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