This is exactly how Cilkchess used to compete. Your ran a gui locally on your laptop which connected to the program (running in a different part of the world) via stdin and stdout - via an ssh connection.
That's what I've always loved about unix - everything is a nice abstraction. You normally don't think too much about which machine something is running on, where it is, how it's connected etc. This abstraction has caused funny things to happen. I get an email saying that I have a job on the printer - I'm in Virginia, the printer is in Massachusetts, I just forgot that my shell is remote - it looks and acts identical to a local shell. Even though Windows has greatly matured over the years, you still feel like your are being controlled more - like you are being confined to a little box. Nowadays you can do some of these things in Windows if you get the right tools - but it's not so transparent. - Don On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 08:42 +0100, Chrilly wrote: > Why does Slu-Go not play remote? E.g the only thing I transported to > London > for playing against GM Adams was a notebook. The Hydra-Cluster would > have > been a little bit difficult to transport. Even in Abu-Dhabi the > operating is > remote. The Hydra-Sheikh sits in his palace and the Cluster is in > another > part of the town. > Its for the chess-engine completly transparent. The engine > writes/reads to > stdout/stdin. If the GUI is on the same PC, the communication is > directly > done. When playing remote SSH (Secure Shell) is started and the rest > goes as > before. _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
