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Subject: Re: Networked games
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From: spaterso@ka.excelan.com (Scott Paterson)
Date: 18 Apr 91 00:52:12 CDT
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In article <1991Apr16.183522.3392@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> earp@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (James K Earp) writes:
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>I was wondering if anybody knew of any networkable games that many
>users can play simultaneously.  I was originally thinking of a network
>chess game, but I suppose other games might lend themselves to this 

You know how people play long distance chess games where one game might
last for a month or more?  How about a wide area network chess game?  I 
thought that you could use NetWare MHS.  Write an user agent that is the
chess game.  You tell it who you are playing against such as joe@nyc and
when you make a move, the application submits a message to MHS addressed
to joe.chess@nyc.  The message is received by the other player's chess
application which then processes the move when Joe opens his chess front
end.  The next game would be Backgammon.  I'm going to do write this
eventually unless someone else does since it could be sometime before I
manage it.

-Scott