Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:09:03 09/29/99
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On September 29, 1999 at 12:51:53, Jon Dart wrote: >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. Yippee!!! >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. My fondest dreams. I think that manufacturers are afraid of winboard engines being sent about the net (with good reason). So, why not have them check the CD in Winboard mode before startup? Then I could have my beloved Winboard interface, and they would not have to sweat bullets at night thinking about some "warez d00d" posting their engine on 10K bulletin boards.
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