Author: Jon Dart
Date: 09:51:53 09/29/99
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I have wondered this myself. Supporting direct play against another engine with sockets (TCP/IP) is certainly an option. But this requires everybody signing on to a new standard. If I were doing a lot of machine-machine testing, I'd get a third low-end machine, hook them all up with network cards and a simple hub, run some kind of simple FICS clone on the middle machine, and have the engines talk to it with the Winboard protocol. Right now few commercial engines speak Winboard. But it is not hard to add this support and perhaps they should be encouraged to do so. Certainly it doesn't have the problems AUTO-232 does. --Jon On September 29, 1999 at 06:08:04, Peter Herttrich wrote: >One more time I don't understand, that this auto232 is >still living. >Here i repeat one of my favorite questions: >Why is there no net-support in the chess-programms? >Every stupid shoot-em-up-game supports network-playing! >A Lan-Card costs abt $20 or less. >Win95/98/NT/UNIX/Linux has a tcp/ip-stack. >Why is this not supported? Look at Xboard under UNIX. >Playing through FICS or machine/machine works like >a charme. >And u will get rid of this damned 232-problems. >And there will be no discussions abt manipulations >through the connections, because every bit can be >sniffed, before it reaches the engine. > >Other opinions? > >cheerio >Peter
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