My first question in this forum

[tano-urayoan]

Hello computer chess enthusiasts
I have read that for some tournaments a player could access remotely to another computer via an uci pipe. Whats that? How it works?
Thanks in advance for your help.

[Dann Corbit]

Hello computer chess enthusiasts
I have read that for some tournaments a player could access remotely to another computer via an uci pipe. Whats that? How it works?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Usually, when you play against a remote opponent (either human or computer) you are using TCP/IP to communicate over the network.

Winboard is a famous way of doing that:
http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard.html

Here is a link showing how the mechanics of the system works:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_chess_server

There are lots of other ways as well.

[Vempele]

I guess you're talking about this? That is, using a remote engine just as if it were on your own computer. Incidentally, it can obviously also handle Winboard since all it does is pass messages between the engine and the GUI.