Command line

[John Pollock]

Just wondering when a server command line option will be made
available?
BTW Pychess rocks!

JP

[gbt...@gmail.com]

Can you explain a bit what "server command line option" mean?
(Sorry for late reply.)

[John Pollock]

When connecting to a chess server like FICS (freechess.org) there is
no command line to enter commands to the chess server. I love the
client PyChess- but many times end up having to utilize another chess
client, due to a lot of commands are usually utilized on the chess
server. The command line gives a user a lot more options on chess
servers.

The command line in this case would be like having a Unix box with GUI
(Graphical User Interface) without the command line.

Hope this helps...

[gbt...@gmail.com]

Ah, I see now :)
This is issue #414 http://code.google.com/p/pychess/issues/detail?id=414
Seems this is not our first priority. Maybe Thomas or Matt can tell
more.

[John Pollock]

Hi again, thanks for the quick response.
Too me and I'm sure other users that utilize a chess server like FICS,
having access to a command line window should be a priority-
especially..

PyChess is fantastic, but that is "the main" reason I and I'm sure
others may opt for other less better clients when connecting up to
chess servers.

If your familiar with Unix or Linux, its the equivalent of having a
Linux/Unix box without a command line.

Many online tourneys, can't really be accessed without a command line.

But ending on a positive note, PyChess look and feel and options are
really sweet.
I use it to study a lot of games- but come connecting up to chess
server I switch over to another client.

I wish PyChess would make this command line window a priorty, IMHO. ;)

On Dec 6, 11:23 am, "gbt...@gmail.com" <gbt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, I see now :)

> This is issue #414http://code.google.com/p/pychess/issues/detail?id=414

[Matthew Gatto]

Personally, I'd definitely like to add something like this in due time.
FICS has to be converted to block mode first though, and according to
http://www.freechess.org/Help/HelpFiles/iv_block.html , block mode
doesn't yet work with Timeseal. Until that happens we can't do it, since
Timeseal is essential to playing games on FICS. I sort of have a
work-around idea in my comment to the relevant issue in the issue
tracker:

http://code.google.com/p/pychess/issues/detail?id=414

[Lobais]

Actually have you tried it? I remember trying the block mode, and I
think it worked with our (python) version of timeseal.

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[Matthew Gatto]

That's good to hear; I haven't tried it out, I was just going on what
the FICS doc said.

[Tamás Bajusz]

From http://ictk.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ictk/trunk/ictk/src/ictk/boardgame/chess/net/ics/fics/FICSProtocolHandler.java?revision=154&view=markup

/* chunkByBlockMode *****************************************************/
/** uses FICS's block mode to process the server output. This cannot
* be used with Timeseal because Timeseal chops off the high-order bits
* and DAV made Block_mode use the high-order bits. Duh.

FICS Bock mode commands can be upper 128 (they are integers from 0 to
187), and timeseal encoding contains this:
for i in xrange(len(buf)):
buf[i] |= 0x80
j = (i+encode_offset) % ENCODELEN
buf[i] = chr((buf[i] ^ ENCODE[j]) - 32)

So, the FICS doc (and ictk comment) is correct :(



2012/1/7 Matthew Gatto <matt...@gmail.com>:

[Tamás Bajusz]

s/upper 128/beyond 128