On-line engine blitz tournament June

[jdart]

I'm on Linux, and I use icsdroneng. I have a fork here, with a few fixes: https://github.com/jdart1/icsdroneng. This has been very reliable.

[Joost Buijs]

No Wifi. Next time i make a screenshot. Internet was ok. It was a winboard notification. I don't like winboard at all. It is crappy and bloated m.i. It has settings scattered all around the place. It's not clear which settings are leading. There is a book file setting (and more) at "common engine" and also at Engine #1. I just don't get it.

In common engine there are checkboxes for engine has own book which i uncheck but always default automatic to "on". Very frustrating interface. I wonder if there's a better Gui which can connect to servers and Kibitz....

The engine communicates with Winboard via a pipe, Winboard lost connection with the engine, thats why you got messages about 'pipe disconnects'. I use winboard 4.8, and I never have a problem with it, it's always rock solid. I agree that the settings are a bit 'fuzzy', but that is something you have to live with.

Maybe the engine used too much memory and caused Windows to start paging, this can give time-outs on the pipe connection, otherwise I don't see any reason why you would get these errors. I don't think Winboard is to blame, there must be some other reason.

There are other GUI's with FICS support, some of them don't let you change the server address. I believe 'Banksia' also supports FICS, I tried some early versions and never got it to work, maybe this is fixed now.

[Bart Weststrate]

Banksia... good tip. I have version 0.58 beta and as we speak there is a connection with the Nightmare server. One must only edit the ini file (in appdata) like so:

[ics]
mode=true
open=true
close=true
accept_seek=false
accept_rated=false
accept_unrated=true
accept_guess=true
accept_register=true
accept_standard=false
accept_blitz=true
accept_lightning=true
preriod=20
host=nightmare-chess.nl:5000

I don't know Banksia well but it looks a lot more slick than WB... To be continued.

[Bart Weststrate]

Banksia gui connects ok but gameplay is.... problematic. So i stick to Winboard after all. I'm gonna hunt for the pipe disconnect problem.

[Modern Times]

When I looked a long time ago, I could not get timeseal to work with Banksia. Simply being able to connect was a false dawn.

[Bart Weststrate]

A false dawn indeed. The last version is from 2023 so no hope on improvement of the issues.