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Subject: Re: No more UCI Network play? How to?

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 14:04:18 11/28/00

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How do I connect two Fritz 6 to play agains each other over a Ethernet
connection?

Torstein


On November 28, 2000 at 12:13:38, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:

>On November 28, 2000 at 12:04:50, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>
>>On November 28, 2000 at 10:42:04, Torstein Hall wrote:
>>
>>>Would two UCI enabled programs be able to play each other over a network? It
>>>feels somewhat stupid to connect my two networked PC's with a serial cable!
>>>Would be nice to be free from that stupid cable.....and all the rest of the
>>>problems with the serial connection play.
>>>
>>>Torstein
>>
>>As far as I understand, UCI is nothing more but the specification of an
>>interface. If you adapt your engine to it and buy Shredder5, then you can play
>>in a net.
>>But UCI alone can't do this for you.
>
>This is only partly true.
>It is possible in the Shredder5 gui to load two engines on different machines in
>a network. So the user interface on the machine you are sitting at and the
>engines somewhere else in the network. This might also work with other interface
>but with UCI it is really simple if you have a rsh demon installed.
>
>Stefan
>
>PS: You can already play on a network with Shredder and Nimzo 8 or any other new
>ChessBase interface without a serial cable, but this has nothing to do with UCI.



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