What resources are there for connecting engines to play automatically on remote servers? What resources are there, e.g. tutorials, for connecting engines to play automatically on remote servers such as ICC?  There are certain opening variations that I want to have a strong engine test and refine on a significant basis.  Modifying an engines book is another matter, though material on that would be nice.

But the material I find, either on engines and interfaces themselves, or on automating engines to play on ICC, is either piecemeal, or far from comprehensive.  This link is the best I can do, and as you can see, it in turn refers you to other material.  But I'm concerned about how up to date this is.
WinBoard is the way to go, also check out...

http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/engine-intf.html

http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/

The WinBoard forum is probably the best place to ask this question or the answer can be found there.