Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:20:41 09/30/03
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On September 30, 2003 at 13:00:55, Frank Phillips wrote: >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/" I have made a build for Win32 of Lasker also.
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