ChessGUI - playing live.

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Re: ChessGUI - playing live.

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Note that TLCV is a VIEWER. It is the program that must be used by those that want to WATCH a broadcast done by someone else. It does not broadcast anything itself, or play any games by itself.

The corresponding software for broadcasting is TLCS. This is something you have to run on the computer where you play the games, in addition to the normal stuff for playing the games (GUI, engines, possibly a tournament manager...). TLCS will peek in the log created by the GUI (e.g. the winboard.debug file) to see what happens in the game, and then send it to any TLCV user that connected to it. To make sure people can connect to your machine at all you will have to alter the configuration of your modems and routers through which your computer connects to the internet, though. This is too difficult for most people (and very much dependent on what hardware you actually have, so everyone would have to do it in a different way, and no one will be able to tell you what you have to do unleaa he happens to have exactly the same brands and models of routers, modems etc.).
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hgm wrote:Note that TLCV is a VIEWER. It is the program that must be used by those that want to WATCH a broadcast done by someone else. It does not broadcast anything itself, or play any games by itself.

The corresponding software for broadcasting is TLCS. This is something you have to run on the computer where you play the games, in addition to the normal stuff for playing the games (GUI, engines, possibly a tournament manager...). TLCS will peek in the log created by the GUI (e.g. the winboard.debug file) to see what happens in the game, and then send it to any TLCV user that connected to it. To make sure people can connect to your machine at all you will have to alter the configuration of your modems and routers through which your computer connects to the internet, though. This is too difficult for most people (and very much dependent on what hardware you actually have, so everyone would have to do it in a different way, and no one will be able to tell you what you have to do unleaa he happens to have exactly the same brands and models of routers, modems etc.).
No programs under winboard I will not use, because I think that they are weak programs.
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Re: ChessGUI - playing live.

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You think Stockfish and Komodo are weak programs?
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Re: ChessGUI - playing live.

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hgm wrote:You think Stockfish and Komodo are weak programs?
I have not written about the fact that these are poor programs, I wrote that I would not use programs winboard.
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Krzysztof Grzelak wrote:I have a request and a question for all what they know stuff. I would like to play live online matches and tournaments chess engines using ChessGui. Can you ask someone knows how to properly configure ChessGui and write what I need to play matches and tournaments of chess programs. For any advice - thank you in advance.
http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... dcast+tlcv
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Krzysztof Grzelak wrote:I have not written about the fact that these are poor programs, I wrote that I would not use programs winboard.
Well, I would not use aftershave, but it is also not very relevant to mention that here.

WinBoard is a GUI, not an engine, and it was only mentioned as an example of how people could broadcast Komodo or Stockfish games through TLCS/TLCV. TLCS was designed to work with the debug files produced by WinBoard. It can work with ChessGUI only because ChessGUI emulates the format of the winboard.debug file.
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hgm wrote:WinBoard is a GUI, not an engine, and it was only mentioned as an example of how people could broadcast Komodo or Stockfish games through TLCS/TLCV. TLCS was designed to work with the debug files produced by WinBoard. It can work with ChessGUI only because ChessGUI emulates the format of the winboard.debug file.
Please do not already let us write about WinBoard. Because if he had to write honestly and openly you got angry at me.
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Re: ChessGUI - playing live.

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I'm sorry, please. Is anyone able to help me with this program to work for all the help program Teamviewer.
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Re: ChessGUI - playing live.

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In which folders are these files on your computer ?

ChessGUI.exe, path.ini (TLCV), tlc_server172b.exe (TLCS) ?
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