Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 10:07:34 11/04/03
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On November 04, 2003 at 08:04:37, Francesco Di Tolla wrote: >Hi guys, > >since the new generation of computers tend to suppress com ports (many laptop >already don't have any, while some desktop lack), I was looking forward for a >way to test engines on two machines with no com port connection. > >I was thinking of using a minimal ICS server on one of the two PC's as mediator. >Does anybody know if such thing exists? I mean an ICS-like implementation with a >minimal support of instructions to enable just a game at a time. >regards >Franz Xboard/Winboard support this as allready mention. On winboard (Windows) you need a rsh-server on the second PC. This is just a program you can download from Tim Mann's site and run as any other program so it isn't hard to do it. Else Chesspartner have a built in ICS server, maybe Chessmaster too but I haven't tried if the later can run eng-matches. The Auto232 connection in Fritz with freends could be used too through network, also with matches against engines in the CP gui. You need to do things in the right order to get it to work, maybe Chessfun have a recipe on her site. For a separate ICS-server you could check out Dann Corbit's ftp-site, I think he mention some month ago that he had compiled an earlier version of fics for Windows. Odd Gunnar
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