Re: icscom fails for uci

[Tim Mann]

Long long ago, to do something like what you need, I think I used to use a little program I called "relay" as the chess engine. It did nothing but relay bytes from the pipes that xboard created to talk to it, to and from something else, like a serial port. I think the implementation was just a shell script that started two instances of "cat -u" or the like.

On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 1:28 AM Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com> wrote:

> TL;DR: xboard -fUCI -icscomm /dev/ttyUSB0 fails with a "POLYGLOT:
> uci_open(): Not a UCI engine.".

Never mind: I just realised icscom is for talking to ICS servers, not
for generic chess programs.