Re: On-line engine blitz tournament October

Andres Valverde · Post by **Andres Valverde** » Sun Oct 18, 2026 11:36 am

jshriver wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2026 12:13 am Was a lot of fun, thank you so much Joost for your effort in keeping this alive. Looking forward to next month.

Indeed, thanks Joost!

I ran Dirty and EveAnn with winboard and all was ok. For Caligula used icsDrone and it ran also flawesly, congrats!

Joost Buijs · Post by **Joost Buijs** » Sun Oct 18, 2026 12:08 pm

I'm happy to hear from everybody that it all ran fine. Of course there are still things that need to be tweaked, but that is just a matter of time.

The server core is much more stable now, in the future we can switch to another protocol. This means that we have to develop new client software for Windows and Linux, with the help of Claude this can be done in a couple of days when the protocol is well defined.

I wonder what is going on with this forum, it's getting worse by the day, it's hardly usable anymore, time-outs, forbidden messages, loading pages takes minutes if they load at all.

jshriver · Post by **jshriver** » Tue Oct 20, 2026 11:08 am

Joost Buijs wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2026 12:08 pm
The server core is much more stable now, in the future we can switch to another protocol. This means that we have to develop new client software for Windows and Linux, with the help of Claude this can be done in a couple of days when the protocol is well defined.

Willing to work with you on the protocol and adjust icsdrone-rs to it

I've also updated it after an issue the author of Quanticade pointed out and has been fixed. The bigger part is I added a 2nd program called icsviewer that's now in the package. It can use a guest login to see all games being played. Just click on the one you want to see and it switches to that view. There is a button on the top that lets you go back to the tournament/games viewer. Otherwise it has the same kinda style as the drone. Pressing "F" will toggle fullscreen, the moon/sun at the bottom right near the Timeseal switches between light and dark mode. Can select pieces and boards and save your settings.

Cheers!
-Josh

https://github.com/jshriver/icsdrone-rs ... ag/v2.2.17

PS: Copy your post before submitting this is now my 4th attempt to submit and keeps asking me to login again. Something really needs fixed.