Long long ago, to do something like what you need, I think I used to use a little program I called "relay" as the chess engine. It did nothing but relay bytes from the pipes that xboard created to talk to it, to and from something else, like a serial port. I think the implementation was just a shell script that started two instances of "cat -u" or the like.
On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 1:28 AM Folkert van Heusden <[email protected]> wrote: > > TL;DR: xboard -fUCI -icscomm /dev/ttyUSB0 fails with a "POLYGLOT: > > uci_open(): Not a UCI engine.". > > Never mind: I just realised icscom is for talking to ICS servers, not > for generic chess programs. > >
