Re: Playing chess in Linux? It works!

[Boris Daix <Boris Daix insa-lyon fr>]

Mario Lang <mlang teleweb at> writes:

> Janina Sajka <janina afb net> writes:
>
>> Hmmm, don't know about emacs-chess. I do know that GNU Chess works very 
>> well.
>
> well, gnuchess is a chess-engine.  emacs-chess is
> a chessboard interface.  So it's more general, you can use
> it to play against other humans on the internet for example.
>
> gnuchess can't do that for you.
>
> P.S.: if anyone wanna play, I'm mlang on freechess.org:5000

I'd love but I'm behind firewall... :-( but I hope it will be ported
into official Debian packages list soon... !

>
>> On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Mario Lang wrote:
>>> 
>>> Just wanted to inform you that there is a text-mode
>>> chessboard application for Linux which works at least
>>> with braille display quite well right now.
>>> 
>>> The program is called emacs-chess, and is written on top
>>> of Emacs.  It can be used to play against various
>>> chess-playing programs like crafty or gnuchess, and you
>>> can also use it to play chess on the Internet via one
>>> of the Free Internet Chess Servers.
>>> 
>>> There are alot of other funny features, like chess-link.el which allows
>>> you to link to chess engines and let them play against themselves.
>>> 
>>> PGN capabilities are also in place.  Have a look, and
>>> tell the author if you like it!
>>> 
>>> http://emacs-chess.sourceforge.net
>
> -- 
> CYa,
>   Mario
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