Re: [eboard-users] Chessd support in the future?

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Jacob S. wrote:

> I've also been able to telnet into chessd on port 5000, so I could run
> some commands and copy/paste or screenshot the responses, if that would
> help anything. Being short on documentation, I haven't found any way to
> run the server with different options, but it seems to output the game
> status in a simple ascii art board.

Hi, I haven't run chessd for ages now, and I don't think I'll have enough
time to download/compile/try/debug before january. If you have a server
set up somewhere, I can try to find out what's wrong. Just find me on FICS
and talk to me (but have a little patience if I'm playing a game or a
tourney).

Be aware that eboard expects game information to be sent in style 12
notation, that is, lines like:

<12> rnbqkb-r pppppppp -----n-- -------- ----P--- -------- PPPPKPPP
RNBQ-BNRB -1 0 0 1 1 0 7 Newton Einstein 1 2 12 39 39 119 122 2 K/e1-e2 (0:06)
Ke2 0

On FICS this is set by eboard by sending "style 12" just after login. It
may be that chessd requires it to be "set style 12", I don't know. It
should be easy to find out if a chessd server is up and available for me.
I just don't want to connect to CEX, since I have quite a quarrel with the
idiots who run it.

If you can't make a server available, run eboard with "eboard -log",
connect to the server, play one or two games (even if you just see the
notation) and send me the resulting ~/LOG.eboard file in a private email
(don't send attachments to the mailing list).

-- Pulga (author of eboard)

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