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OK, I claered up a lot of the confusion I was subject to. It seems that I had
been downloading the chesd C sources from a location that described an
entiely different, PHP-based server also called chessd...

I have found a chessd version now which is called Lasker-2.2.3, which does
include a correct description to install it. Indeed I had problems
compiling it: apprently the Ubunt compiler is more strict than the one
Lasker was developed with. So you get compiler errors.

All errors are basically the same: some global vaiable is delared as
'satic ...', while it is in the included header file as 'extern ...'.
Apparently, this is no longer allowed. I cold solve it by simply deleting
all the offending 'static' keywords (in 5 different source files occurs
one, IIRC). After that it compiled.

You have to be superuser to do the 'make install', something the README
fails to mention. But then there were no more poblem, and I could run the
server according to the instructions, and login on it from another
computer on my intrnal network. Looks just like FICS, except the place is
deserted, so you have no opponents! ;-)

So I guess I will start hacking this one, to expand the board size, and
add some more piece types.