I have just discovered a very nice program of which I had never heard before. It is a FICS compatible Linux chess interface written in C by Julien Bramary: https://github.com/julbra/cairo-board
After a small modification of the source code (see my commit here), I could compile the program, and as far as I see it works perfectly.
I also had to change the path to Stockfish, in uci-adapter.c:
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//TODO: can we discover these from $PATH?
/*
if (brainfish) {
argv[0] = "/usr/local/bin/brainfish";
} else {
argv[0] = "/usr/bin/stockfish";
}
*/
argv[0] = "/home/roland/Applications/moteurs/stockfish/11/Linux/stockfish_20011801_x64";I also changed the value of the variable ics_mode, in main.c:
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[roland@localhost cairo-board (master)]$ ./cairo_board
Connected to ICS server.
[parse UCI thread] - Starting UCI parser
[UCI manager thread] - Starting UCI manager
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| |/ |/ / __/ / /__/ /_/ / / / / / / __/ / /_/ /_/ /
|__/|__/\___/_/\___/\____/_/ /_/ /_/\___/ \__/\____/
^^__ _____________________ _ _ _
/ - \_ / ____/ _/ ____/ ___/ _ | || || |
<| __< / /_ / // / \__ \ (_) |_______|
<| \ / __/ _/ // /___ ___/ / _ \__ ___ /
<| \ /_/ /___/\____//____/ (_) |___|_|
<|______\ |_|___|
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(________) freechess.org ---- 54.39.129.129 (_______)
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Today's Scheduled Events:
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1200 Scheduled Fischer Random at 12:00 pm Server Time
1400: 20 0 at 1400
1600: 1 0 tournament
1800: Thursday's Scheduled 15 0
2200: The Nightly 5 0
To join a scheduled tournament, join channel 49 (+channel 49)
And be there for the scheduled start.
For a complete tournament schedule, type "td help schedule"
Regular tournaments are run all day, "td set tourneyinfo on" to see them.
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To check the current server time, use "date".
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1633 (Tue, Apr 2) Chess for Android app can now connect to FICS.
1641 (Sat, Feb 29) Diamond Chess - New app for iPhones and iPads.
1647 (Wed, Jun 3) RIP marcelk
1655 (Sat, Nov 28) Diamond Chess app now available for Android devices.
1656 (Fri, Jan 22) Astrobot - new astrology/astronomy bot.
1660 (Sat, Apr 10) MAC version of Diamond Chess app updated & has new download URL.
1666 (Mon, Dec 6) FICS Donations Drive #3 Progress Report
1668 (Sun, Dec 26) ATT.net no longer blocking our emails.
1670 (Fri, Feb 4) Password resets being done by hand for the time being.
1671 (Fri, Feb 4) Adjudications are being done by hand for the time being.
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defprompt set.
pendinfo set.
nowrap set.
lock set.
Style 12 set.
Auto-flagging enabled.
-- channel list: 4 channels --
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[roland@localhost cairo-board (master)]$
