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| If it could. Otherwise, it might be enough to call an engine on 
| another server. But I do want to look into the possibility of 
| running an engine on the server. I know this website runs on a 
| FreeBSD server. Would Fairy-Max run on a FreeBSD server?

Fairy-Max is available in source (this is included in the WinBoard_F
download), and the source can be compiled both for Windows and Linux. You
have to define the macro LINUX to make it use a Unix-like call for reading
the clock. I suppose this would also work on FreeBSD.

| Right now, I need to know what the most basic steps would be. I need 
| to know where to put the engine, what protocol to use to communicate 
| with it, and how I could do this through PHP.

WinBoard engines are normal console programs that communicate in plain
text. So it is fairly easy to run them on another machine, using a remote
shell there to which GC connects.