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[H.G.Muller]

Well, fairymax doesn't need parameters and should normally be in the path (on Linux) But even if it would, you would just give them with the comand:

ssh user@system '/home/user/chess/mypolyglot -noini -ec /home/user/chess/myfruitclone'

would run mypolyglot + myfruitclone (presumably a UCI engine).

Obviously the host machine would have to be configured as a server, and the engine would have to be installed on it. This might as well be done properly, configuring the engine such that it knows how to find the data files and libraries it needs. Putting this burdon on users that connect seems a really bad idea.

As to authentication, I understood that ssh will take care of all that (when you properly configure it). No need to let the GUI do it. In the end you will always have to configure something. Passwords or public keys don't materialize out of thin air. So you might as well configure ssh directly (which was designed for exactly that job).

Compressing the data stream seems hardly worthwile.