icsDrone is an application that lets you to put your chess engine to the test by making it available as an opponent for the 100,000 players on the Internet Chess Servers.
icsDrone acts as an interface between an ICS (Internet Chess Server) and a chess engine. It knows how to create games, ask people to continue any adjourned games, ask for games when bored and much more. The engine itself can be administrated or configured remotely. It talks with the chess engine using pipes and the protocol specified in the protocol document. It's a subset of the 'Chess Engine Communication Protocol' with a few changes here and there. There are plans to make icsDrone into a library that the engine can link against, but that's only on the sketchbook right now.
The program was created back in '96 as a simple way to have N engines up and running 24/7 without taking up a workstation or X terminal (like XBoard does) as it runs in the background. If you instead intend to have your engine running just for some hours on you local workstation while watching it play, you might just aswell use XBoard/WinBoard.
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