What is Zippy? How can I interface a chess program to the Internet Chess Servers?
Zippy is an interface that lets GNU Chess play as if it were a human player on an Internet Chess Server, against humans or other computers. Zippy is included in both the XBoard and WinBoard distributions. http://www.tim-mann.org/zippy.html. With version 5.06 support for icsdrone has been introduced.
Zippy is an interface that lets a compatible chess engine (such as GNU Chess or Crafty) act as a computer player on an Internet Chess Server. Zippy is included in both the XBoard and WinBoard distributions. It is implemented as a small amount of additional code within XBoard or WinBoard. For documentation, see the file zippy.README, included in both distributions or available from my chess Web page, http://www.tim-mann/chess.html. The version of zippy.README on my Web page is often more up-to-date than those in the XBoard/WinBoard distributions. You’ll also find a “biography” of Zippy and pointers to the original Zippy the Pinhead comic strips on my Web page. Please read zippy.README carefully before you ask me any questions about Zippy. Using a computer to choose your moves on a chess server is considered cheating unless your account is on the computer (C) list. Read “help computer” on your favorite server for details on their policy. Most of the servers have plenty of computers runni
