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Article #4546Front end chess programs for the chess servers.
From: atilla
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 00:00
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 00:00
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I WANT a front end chess program that will enable my mouse and provide a decent board, so I can play faster on all of the chess servers. I love to play, and never get the chance, normally. I don't mind playing computers, but I enjoy conversation along with the game. I am getting extremely frustrated because it takes me so long to move. I have always had a problem visualizing and figuring out bishop moves. (If it were not for the bishop and the diagonal queen moves, I would not have a problem playing blindfold.) Then I must type in the move. The board off the server is also rather confusing. I can usually play into the middle game without much lag, but blitz can be a real pain when everything is so non-user friendly. I run out of time and look like a fool. Also I am having BIG problems with all but the chess.lm.com 5000 chess servers, in that I must use control J to enter my moves. Fortunately I found out control J actually works by using the telnet helium.daimi.aau.dk 5000 server. At the login they said to use enter or control J to continue, which worked. I then used it on the other 2 servers telnet anemone.daimi.aau.dk 5000 and telnet ics.onenet.net 5000. But even though I can access these servers now, the control J really slows me down. The pinky sometimes misses and when I destructive backspace it get more garbage, so I must control J a bad command/move and more time is wasted. What exactly is Gnu chess? Does it enable front end graphic user interfaces with telenet through a slip/ppp internet connection? I will buy a copy if it does. Please respond by e-mail with any suggestions, or possible sources of information. I understand there are multiple systems out there on the internet, but mine is a rather simple 486 EISA compaq with 12Meg of memory, and 6oo meg of hard drive. I also have OS2 on a partition of my largest drive. I really don't use it much, but it will help, I will. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Tom Koszoru Huns in Space
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,23c52dedb9174e20,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public From: atilla@icon.net Subject: Front end chess programs for the chess servers. Date: 1995/04/01 Message-ID: <199504011735.LAA14389@ns2.icon.net> X-Deja-AN: 100673692 distribution: gnu sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu organization: GNUs Not Usenet newsgroups: gnu.chess