TLCS-TLCV

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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 to prepare and transmit new information to all connected viewers.

=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. 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, which also gives insights in the TLCS/TLCV protocol in TLCVClient::receive.

=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 (Wayback Machine)
 * GitHub - kmar/livius: livius - a Qt-based TLCV-compatible live chess viewer by Martin Sedlak

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