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Michael Rueger
m.rueger at acm.org
Tue Apr 18 05:21:43 UTC 2000
Lex Spoon wrote:
>
> > > Do you know of other games having a sort of standardized protocol?
> Chess does. Check out xboard, for instance. The protocol doesn't seem
> to documented anywhere, but there are a large number of clients.
>
> Note there are at least two levels of support for these "ICS" servers.
> First, you can simply support the play of games, and give players a
> telnet window for doing things like setting up a games. Second, you can
> try to automate *all* the commands that ICS supports. This is a big
> task, though....
With some help from a chess playing friend of mine I found some links to
servers
http://www.caissa.com/
http://www.chessclub.com/
and documentation
ftp://ftp.chessclub.com/pub/icc/formats/formats.txt
But, you are right, seems like a bit more work than I can put into this
right now.
Michael
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