BICS = bughouse ICS

• The idea : to have free open source bughouse chess internet server with bronstein time control and various of improvements in alternative chess direction.
  
  
• New free bughouse ICS started - open source
  Thanks to Aramen
  Thanks to Developers of http://chess.samba.org and http://chessd.sourceforge.net
  
  
• For more join Aramen's BICS (http://chess.sipay.ru) where this free bughouse chess internet server now,
  You can connect using Thief interface ...
  BICS now in USA hosted use 207.114.86.51 in Thief server configuration (no chess.sipay.ru)
  
  
• One stable version of BICS is here : BICS public 0.5 release.tar.gz (191 KB)
  Working features of this open source internet chess server :
  • Bronstein time control
  • Thief + BICS + Timeseal : playing, observing, following, logging games
  • Fischer random bughouse, crazyhouse
  • Improved rating system for bughouse
  • GPArbiter
  • And more ...
  
  
  This is working BICS - all sources, only timeseal decoder source file is not included, and You can ask developers for timeseal if you seriously wish run BICS.