[MNO] - I've been working on a client for Internet Chess servers such as the ICC (chessclub.com) and FICS (freechess.org)
for the [PocketPC] using Tcl/Tk for [Windows/CE].

It's fairly crude at present, The internal state engine is very minimal and configuration screens etc. are
currently unimplemented.

The code now appears to almost work, using the excellent [eTcl] port.  You need to also install the BWidget package somewhere
that eTcl will find it.

I say almost since there is an issue with the chess clocks running which I suspect may be a race condition in my handling of them.

pICS currently looks a little like this:-

[http://www.aowp08.dsl.pipex.com/mark/sw/board2.jpg]        [http://www.aowp08.dsl.pipex.com/mark/sw/connection.jpg]        [http://www.aowp08.dsl.pipex.com/mark/sw/interact2.jpg]

The script is at the following location: http://www.aowp08.dsl.pipex.com/mark/sw/pICS/PocketICS.tcl

'''Please bear in mind that it is buggy and at best alpha quality at present.  Don't risk playing rated games until the
bugs are fixed unless you don't mind losing rating points!'''

The PocketICS (aka pICS) homepage is at http://www.oakden.org/mark/sw/pICS (but hasn't been updated for the release of the above version yet).

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