Re: [eboard-users] Eboard and ICC questions...

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

On Fri, 2 May 2003, Jason T. Breitweg wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Just started using eboard and I had a couple of questions.  I used
> eboard for FICS games and everything seems to work fine but the other
> day I logged into ICC (chessclub.com) with eboard.  Does eboard work
> with timestamp (not timeseal)?  If so how does one set this up?
>
> Has anyone else noticed problems on ICC with eboard when trying to
> observe games?  I kept getting the game in the console but the game
> board would never update.  Is this a big or a feature?  It worked
> perfectly with FICS.  I mainly log onto ICC to observe tournament
> games.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

eboard does not work on ICC; it is unable to parse ICC output correctly. I
don't play at ICC and I have no interest in making eboard compatible with
it. Long ago I have told people who asked me for ICC support that, since
eboard is open source and ICC people will know better about ICC
output/protocol than me, an ICC player should go and program ICC protocol
support.  No one showed up. Also, it seems that ICC administration
wouldn't be happy with users using third party software instead of their
BlitzIn spyware.

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