Freeware Chess GUI's that hook up to ICC & utilize UCI?

[reflectionofpower]

Any good 1's that can do this. Arena seems to be messed up in this area. I am not knocking it I am just saying in this aspect.

[Raptor]

For Raptor's online tournaments, I use winboard/xboard.

The new releases allow you to utilize uci by adding the -fUCI command line parameter.

The older versions required you to manually setup UCI via polyglot(or UCI2WB adapter)

If you need help with this let me know and I can give u a guide of sorts.

[reflectionofpower]

For Raptor's online tournaments, I use winboard/xboard.

The new releases allow you to utilize uci by adding the -fUCI command line parameter.

The older versions required you to manually setup UCI via polyglot(or UCI2WB adapter)

If you need help with this let me know and I can give u a guide of sorts.

I know Winboard can do it but you have to use these Winboardish syntaxes and I want something a little more user friendly. thanks anyway.

[royb]

Any good 1's that can do this. Arena seems to be messed up in this area. I am not knocking it I am just saying in this aspect.

Pychess can talk to FICS. Not sure if it can talk to ICC. And it supports UCI-based chess engines. And it's free. Might be worth a look.

[reflectionofpower]

That's Linux based. I should have said Windows. I need a Windows one.

[royb]

That's Linux based. I should have said Windows. I need a Windows one.

Here you go: http://www.pychess.org/download/

They have windows .msi files for download on this page.

[reflectionofpower]

That's Linux based. I should have said Windows. I need a Windows one.

Here you go: http://www.pychess.org/download/

They have windows .msi files for download on this page.

"On-line play on FICS with built-in FICS Timeseal support" it does not have ICC support,thanks anyway.

[royb]

That's Linux based. I should have said Windows. I need a Windows one.

Here you go: http://www.pychess.org/download/

They have windows .msi files for download on this page.

"On-line play on FICS with built-in FICS Timeseal support" it does not have ICC support,thanks anyway.

Sorry about that. I was hoping that you could just put in: www.chessclub.com and be off and running. Shows that I do not use ICC and don't know what is involved in accessing it.

Good luck in finding something that works for you!

[hgm]

I know Winboard can do it but you have to use these Winboardish syntaxes and I want something a little more user friendly. thanks anyway.

Actually starting WinBoard with the command line "winboard -ics -zp" (for which you could create a shortcut) is sufficient to let you select the engine and the ICS from the comboboxes in the Startup Dialog. Perhaps I should have the standard install create a start-menu item for this command; currently only items for human play on FICS or ICC are created on install. People running engines usually know how to do it, and would want a short-cut for their own engine anyway, rather than having to select it interactively each time they want to run it,soI never bothered.

The Startup Dialog currently offers 3 choices: engine, (human) ICS client or PGN viewer. Wouldit be useful to offer a 4th option, zippy mode (=engine on ICS)?

[Norbert Raimund Leisner]

ICC chess server is commercial https://store.chessclub.com/ , trial-period
https://store.chessclub.com/customer/account/create/
why is not FICS an option for you?

DASHER
https://www.chessclub.com/download-software/dasher
https://www.chessclub.com/user/helpcent ... Notes.html
LANTERN CHESS
http://www.lanternchess.com/

https://internetchessclub.zendesk.com/home > support ICC

Best wishes,
Norbert