Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Oct 20, 2009 05:46 PM UTC:Indeed, I never use telnet to play Chess. Only to manage my monthly on-line computer blitz tourney, as admin (entering account names, and controlling the 'mamer' tournament manager. I supposed that no one does this anymore, and did not even bother to adapt the boards style 1-10 to unorthodox pieces. Only style 4 sort of works for Capablanca variants. (Problem is that this is very cumbersome to adapt, as all these boards are built by a table-driven routine that contains litteral strings tuned to an 8-wide board for each style.) So I just used the ICS protocol as a low-level carrier for communication with the graphical client, through board-style 12 (which is a machine style). The clients also use only long algebraic notation (e2e4, b8c6, etc.), so I never bothered to program the letter codes for unorthodox pieces into the SAN parser of the ICS. Should I? Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID Variant ICS does not match any item.
