Answers.Body: <p>You can setup lichess locally with this guide: <a href="http://github.com/ornicar/lila/wiki/Lichess-Development-Onboarding" rel="nofollow">github.com/ornicar/lila/wiki/Lichess-Development-Onboarding</a>. The creator of lichess said this should work over irc.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Probably even lichess.org "Play with friends" serves my purposes... + 1 for pointing out lichess.org exists ;)
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Answers.Text: I thought you were looking for a way of hosting your own service. Yeah lichess and chess.com and ICC probably all have play with friend like functionality.
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Answers.Text: Yes, I am looking for a way of hosting an own service - you're right and thank you for your answer. I just found out that probably my reasons for hosting an on server have become obsolete - which doesn't change anything on the correctness of your answer though. Hope I could solve this mistake ;)
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Body: <p>I want to host my own chess server (just in my home network, nothing public) to play chess with some friends.</p>
  
  <p>I did some research on it and found out that the protocol used to realize a chess server is called - like the server - ICS.
  The results I've found were very vague, most of them point to the existing big hosters like freechess.org, chess.com etc.</p>
  
  <p>Are there any tools to host an own chess server?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: I have not done this before (I am in the process of setting it up now) but the lichess source code is available publically. If you go look here https://github.com/ornicar/lila/wiki/Lichess-Development-Onboarding , you might be able to setup a local server with lichess.
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Comments.Text: @chackerian Hey, thanks ;) I'll check that out.
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Comments.Text: That should work if you get it setup. Someone just told me.
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Title: How to host an own chess ICS server?
ThreadText: # How to host an own chess ICS server?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-07-28)
  
  I want to host my own chess server (just in my home network, nothing public) to play chess with some friends.
  
  I did some research on it and found out that the protocol used to realize a chess server is called - like the server - ICS.
  The results I've found were very vague, most of them point to the existing big hosters like freechess.org, chess.com etc.
  
  Are there any tools to host an own chess server?
  
  **Tags:** engines
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: I have not done this before (I am in the process of setting it up now) but the lichess source code is available publically. If you go look here https://github.com/ornicar/lila/wiki/Lichess-Development-Onboarding , you might be able to setup a local server with lichess.  
  > **username_0**: @username_1 Hey, thanks ;) I'll check that out.  
  > **username_1**: That should work if you get it setup. Someone just told me.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-07-28. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  You can setup lichess locally with this guide: [github.com/ornicar/lila/wiki/Lichess-Development-Onboarding](http://github.com/ornicar/lila/wiki/Lichess-Development-Onboarding). The creator of lichess said this should work over irc.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Probably even lichess.org "Play with friends" serves my purposes... + 1 for pointing out lichess.org exists ;)  
  > **username_1**: I thought you were looking for a way of hosting your own service. Yeah lichess and chess.com and ICC probably all have play with friend like functionality.  
  > **username_0**: Yes, I am looking for a way of hosting an own service - you're right and thank you for your answer. I just found out that probably my reasons for hosting an on server have become obsolete - which doesn't change anything on the correctness of your answer though. Hope I could solve this mistake ;)  
  
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