Peer-to-peer GUI connection adapter

[h.g.muller]

I have programmed an adapter to directly play games between two GUIs on different machines, over a network. The adapter (p2p.exe) looks to the GUI like a normal engine, and will start listening as a server for incoming connection requests as soon as you start it. Through its engine options you can then enter an IP adress of the machine you want to connect to, and press the Connect button (both in the GUI engine-configuration menu), to make the connection between the p2p pseudo-engines on the different machines. By putting both GUIs in human-engine mode (playing opposite colors!) you can then play a game against your remote opponent, the connected p2ps shuttling the moves between the mahines. Of course you could use an engine on one or both sides as well (by putting the GUI there in engine-engine mode, the engine playing p2p).



Downloads:
http://hgm.nubati.net/p2p.zip (Windows binary + docs)
http://hgm.nubati.net/p2p (Linux binary)
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/eng.html (Android)

[shiv]

I have programmed an adapter to directly play games between two GUIs on different machines, over a network. The adapter (p2p.exe) looks to the GUI like a normal engine, and will start listening as a server for incoming connection requests as soon as you start it. Through its engine options you can then enter an IP adress of the machine you want to connect to, and press the Connect button (both in the GUI engine-configuration menu), to make the connection between the p2p pseudo-engines on the different machines. By putting both GUIs in human-engine mode (playing opposite colors!) you can then play a game against your remote opponent, the connected p2ps shuttling the moves between the mahines. Of course you could use an engine on one or both sides as well (by putting the GUI there in engine-engine mode, the engine playing p2p).



Downloads:
http://hgm.nubati.net/p2p.zip (Windows binary + docs)
http://hgm.nubati.net/p2p (Linux binary)
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/eng.html (Android)

Thanks! This is very useful to test out remote engines (even cloud engines).