Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 10:00:55 09/30/03
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On September 29, 2003 at 23:23:22, Jon Dart wrote: >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 I downloaded lasker-2.2.2 from the samba site and use that for testing at home - or at least used before I stopped. Frank From the README "This is an enhanced version of the 'lasker' internet chess server. I started to enhance Lasker when I needed a working chess server for a local school. You can get the original 'lasker' release from http://chessd.sourceforge.net/ and you can get my enhanced version from http://chess.samba.org/" > >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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