run xboard backend as daemon?

[jdart]

I saw some discussion about this last year - being able to run xboard as a console-detached daemon process.

I think this would be very useful for programs that run on a chess server, especially on a remote machine. The idea is the engine will keep running and keep its connection even if you don't have a console connection to the box. If you need to control it remotely you can do so by sending it "zippy" commands from another account.

Apparently xboard doesn't support this at present - anyone know if there is an alternative winboard-compatible interface that does? (I'd take a UCI interface too but would prefer something supporting the winboard protocol).

--Jon

[Michel]

One way of achieving this currently is given here.

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=50574&p=192008

Another possibility is to run a dedicated daemon such as icsdroneng

http://alpha.uhasselt.be/Research/Algeb ... g-release/

It is used by a number of bots on FICS (and it works only on FICS, not on ICC ).

Icsdroneng will relogin if the connection is interrupted which is very nice for bots.

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Interface: "icsdroneng-0.19 + GNU Chess 5.07.94b. Online since Thu Apr 15 18:57:53 2010 GMT (5417 games played)."
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