Playing Chess via SMS Messaging

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Playing Chess via SMS Messaging

I know there are some pretty nice open-source chess engines with powerful AI, like Crafty, that also have a nifty command line interface.

I also know that I can send e-mails with my SMS-capable phone, and that I can reply to such an e-mail, and it will be sent to my phone as a SMS text message.

Is there any way I can combine the two? For example, text message a command like "Nd3" to an e-mail monitored by a computer, which sends the command to Crafty, and e-mails back the response?

I wasn't sure which site to post this one on; hopefully this is appropriate.

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Instead of parsing emails back and forth, you could use one of the SMS gateways out there like Twilio that supports sending and receiving messages via HTTP POST requests. I don't know of any free ones off hand that do it this way, but using regular ol' HTTP could save you a lot of time fussing with email servers and such.

Full disclosure: I work at Twilio.

John Sheehan 2010-06-09 22:00:44

What framework would I set this up on? I'm not exactly sure where to start; would I use an API and a scripting language like ruby/python/bash, and attach it to my chess engine?Thanks

Justin L. 2010-06-11 06:05:07

Any framework that supports sending/receiving HTTP requests. We have helper libraries for a bunch of them including Ruby and Python: http://github.com/twilio

John Sheehan 2010-06-11 14:27:50

hm; this sounds like a very nice solution. If I ever decide to go commercial with this application, I would definitely do it.However, this is for my own personal hobby and chess playing =/

Justin L. 2010-06-11 21:09:58

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