Lasker Chess Server
This is an enhanced chess server based on the 'lasker' chess server
from http://chessd.sourceforge.net/
For more details please see the README
Features
- lots and lots of bugs fixed
- timeseal support added (see
timeseal/README for details)
- server configuration via 'aconfig' command instead of config.h
- added multi-part command parsing (commands separated by ';')
- enhanced aliases
- build/install process fixed
- fixed help system
- transparent server reload (upgrade without disturbing connections
or games)
- plus lots more …
Download
Tar balls of released version are available here
cvs
I recommend you download the source using anonymous cvs. The following
command should do it:
cvs -z5 -d :pserver:cvs@pserver.samba.org:/cvsroot co lasker
Then to get updates do the following:
cd lasker
cvs -z5 update -dP
Mailing list
If you wish to discuss the development of Lasker then please join the
chessd-general
mailing list at http://chessd.sourceforge.net/
Latest release
The latest release is 2.2.3. This release adds:
- new command "remote"
- fixed several bugs in algebraic move parsing for ambiguous moves
- fixed promotion using = notation
- fixed time handling on first move
- fixed handling of '$' commands
- changed mam alias to use xtell
- reduced CPU usage in server dramatically
- fixed several crash bugs
- added logging of admin commands
News
- June 12th 2002. First announcement of CVS version of enhanced lasker
- June 13th 2002. Added ability to reload the server code (upgrade)
without disturbing games or connections.
- June 13th 2002. Released lasker-2.0.tar.gz
- June 18th 2002. Released lasker-2.0.1.tar.gz
- June 22nd 2002. Released lasker-2.1.0.tar.gz
- June 23rd 2002. Released lasker-2.2.0.tar.gz
- June 29th 2002. Released lasker-2.2.1.tar.gz
- July 1st 2002. Released lasker-2.2.2.tar.gz
- July 22nd 2004. Released lasker-2.2.3.tar.gz
Andrew Tridgell
bugs@chess.samba.org