pgeorges schrieb:
Hi!
>> - Find opponent: did you try that on some peak hour of fics?
>> Say something like 9:00 pm CET? IMHO the buttonlist is not
>> that useable there. Maybe a list like the "game list"
>> woul be more suitable?
> Yes, it is not good. Jin or Babaschess are far better.
Well, but it's not that bad. I could just imagine that using
a simple "list" instead of buttons or multiple columns would
ease up things here. One long column just doesn't fit. I
think you'll have to work on this especially if it should
fit on a small system like those CE devices use.
>> - "Games" button should work similarily to "Find opponent",
>> so one could easily observe a game relayed on the server.
> Games is a raw output of played games (standard chess). I think some
> commands should be user configurable (like with Babaschess).
> The user interface is far from perfect as I mainly concentrated on
> Pocket PC's one.
Well I issued the observe on the command line. Works nicely.
Then I saw the "games" button and thought it might produce
something similar than "search opponent". At least such a
button bar would be nice. Maybe also multiple columns.
Especially as the raw text list scolls by to fast if the
seek lines are not filtered.
>> - For "observe" one should probably read the whole game from
>> the start and not just the current position as starting
>> FEN.
>>
> I found no easy way to do this. FICS is an human readable protocol, not
> easily parsed.
Hm. Ok.
>> - Observing multiple games Or: how to fetch a "life"
>> tournament relayed via the server could also be of some
>> interest.
>>
> I will enhance the interface later, but I consider that on
> PC there are maybe better ones (Jin) and I wanted first to
> fill a hole on Pocket PC.
Well xboard or jin are nice indeed. But till now I did e.g.
not figure how I could easily run an analysis engine while
observing some relayed game, and this is a feature I miss
quite some time. This works pretty well with scid now. I
think this is a valuable feature indeed.
> More important you will note that I did not add Timeseal support
This is important for playing a game but I'd also
considering the value of this interface especially for the
relays from larger tournaments. So observing multiple games
and an easy switching between while running an analysis
engine sounds a pretty nice and at least to my knowledge
unique feature to me. :)
> as this is closed source protocol (to prevent chess
> players from cheating !?).
Think so.
> So if anyone has contact about this feature (Timeseal), I
> am interested.
IMHO you'll have to use the binary timeseal as a proxy. So
at this point my typical question would be: Why not just use
it and interface with it.
BTW: I missed one point in my list. Probably one should
obeye a .icsrc if it exists. It contains UID/PW and then a
list of commands sent to the FICS server upon login. Comes
in handy. The format is simple:
userid
password
ficscommand
ficscommand
ficscommand
Plus using this file it could be shared with xboard.
--
Kind regards,
Alexander Wagner
Universitaetsbibliothek Ilmenau
Langewiesener Str. 37
98693 Ilmenau
Tel.: 03677/69-4521 , Fax.: 03677/69-4617
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