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TLCS/TLCV, (Tom's Live Chess Server and Viewer)
a chess game web broadcast server and client (viewer) by Thomas McBurney to transmit and view live games from WinBoard or Arena on the internet using UDP.

Server

The TLCS server is a Windows console application written in PowerBASIC, configured by a "server.ini" file. It does not directly interfere with WinBoard or Arena, but monitors and parses its debug file ^[1] to prepare and transmit new information to all connected viewers ^[2].

Clients

The TLCV client is written in Visual Basic with an own GUI to run under Windows. Two alternative TLCV-compatible clients WBROG and REGO were developed by Andrew Fan, REGO written in platform independent Java to run on various operating systems ^[3]. A further TLCV-compatible live chess viewer is livius by Martin Sedlak written in C++ using Qt 5 and released as open source under the zlib license ^[4], which also gives insights in the TLCS/TLCV protocol in TLCVClient::receive ^[5].

See also

• aiBloodshed
• Arena
• ChessGUI
• Chess Server
• GUI
• Protocols
• WinBoard

Forum Posts

2003

• Easy way to broadcast tournaments live on the internet by Thomas McBurney, Winboard Forum, October 10, 2003
• Chess viewer client and server updated by Thomas McBurney, Winboard Forum, October 11, 2003
• Chess viewer and client updated by Thomas McBurney, Winboard Forum, October 13, 2003
• Live chess viewer and server updated by Thomas McBurney, Winboard Forum, October 16, 2003
• Greatly improved Live chess viewer and server... by Thomas McBurney, Winboard Forum, October 22, 2003
• Live Viewer & server now has a web page by Thomas McBurney, Winboard Forum, October 24, 2003
• Live chess Viewer and server has been updated by Thomas McBurney, Winboard Forum, October 27, 2003
• Tommy, any chance of publishing the viewer protocol? by Alejandro Dubrovsky, Winboard Forum, October 31, 2003
• Live chess viewer and server have been updated by Thomas McBurney, Winboard Forum, November 01, 2003
• About Tom's Live Chess Viewer by Matt McKnight, Winboard Forum, November 10, 2003
• Live chess Viewer and server have been updated by Thomas McBurney, Winboard Forum, November 11, 2003
• Tom's chess viewer by Olivier Deville, Winboard Forum, December 03, 2003
• New version of the Viewer and the Server now available by Thomas McBurney, Winboard Forum, December 23, 2003

2004

• Arena and TLVC by Volker Pittlik, Winboard Forum, May 14, 2004
• Is TLCV with Linux and wine possible by Volker Annuss, Winboard Forum, May 20, 2004
• A proposal for Tom / TLCV by Anthony Cozzie, Winboard Forum, July 28, 2004
• New version of Tom's Live Chess Game Viewer by Thomas McBurney, Winboard Forum, November 20, 2004
• ChessWar : games live now - New viewers for Windows and Linux ! by Olivier Deville, CCC, December 18, 2004

2005 ...

• 'Tom's Live Chess Viewer' by Roy Harper, Winboard Forum, February 19, 2005
• For Linux Users-- I'm running "Tom's Live Chess Viewer" under Linux by Tom Likens, CCC, July 17, 2005
• REGO (linux version of TLCV) by Anthony Cozzie, CCC, March 09, 2005
• New Java applet for live games by Olivier Deville, CCC, June 07, 2007
• windows vista home basic+tlcv by Mike Schoonover, Winboard Forum, March 13, 2009

2010 ...

• How to relay games with winboard/xboard by yoshiharu, Winboard Forum, February 16, 2011
• ChessGUI 0.230 and TLCV by Matthias Gemuh, Winboard Forum, August 21, 2011 » ChessGUI
• ChessGUI 0.230 and TLCV by Matthias Gemuh, CCC, August 21, 2011 » ChessGUI
• TLCS move error count problems by Clemens Keck, Winboard Forum, January 29, 2012
• What a TLCV live broadcast looks like by Graham Banks, CCC, January 08, 2014
• livius sources (a TLCV-compatible client) by Martin Sedlak, CCC, April 26, 2014

2015 ...

• tom's chess live viewer in win 8.1 by Marco Belli, CCC, January 02, 2015
• TLCS and Winboard by Günther Simon, CCC, May 07, 2016
• WBRGO Server! and Client by Günther Simon, CCC, May 07, 2016
• TLCV and mobile network by Sven Schüle, CCC, May 13, 2017
• TLCV can't connect to server by Álvaro Begué, CCC, July 13, 2017
• Need help to solve TLCV broadcast connection problem by Sven Schüle, CCC, December 26, 2017

External Links

• Tom's Live Chess Viewer by Thomas McBurney
• FireFly's Home page including WBROG and REGO by Andrew Fan
• GitHub - kmar/livius: livius - a Qt-based TLCV-compatible live chess viewer by Martin Sedlak

References

1. ^ WinBoard - Load and Save Options, see /debug and /engineDebugOutput number
2. ^ Tom's Live Chess Viewer by Thomas McBurney
3. ^ FireFly's Home page including WBROG and REGO by Andrew Fan
4. ^ GitHub - kmar/livius: livius - a Qt-based TLCV-compatible live chess viewer
5. ^ livius/tlcvclient.cpp at master · kmar/livius · GitHub

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