Is there anything other than Fixation? I find the interface ugly, and
many of the pieces look alike, unless the board is tiny. Any
alternatives?

Kirk

(Kirk McElhearn) wrote in rec.games.chess.misc:

Is there anything other than Fixation? I find the interface ugly, and
many of the pieces look alike, unless the board is tiny. Any
alternatives?


Would it be possible to tweak Chessic to play on FICS? At least it
connects you to ICC.
http://www.orcsoftware.com/~jocke/chessic/

http://www.stratlabs.com/
is maybe another.

The author of Sigma Chess is pondering to implement it in the next
version, I believe. Maybe even in the free light version.

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CeeBee


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Kirk McElhearn wrote:
Is there anything other than Fixation? I find the interface ugly, and
many of the pieces look alike, unless the board is tiny. Any
alternatives?

There's always javaboard http://www.freechess.org/javaboard/. If you're
using MacOS X, you should be able to get xboard or one of the other Unix/
Linux programs to work.


Dave.

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David Richerby Mouldy Fluorescent Dish (TM): it's
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~davidr/ like a fine ceramic dish but it'll
hurt your eyes and it's starting to
grow mushrooms!

CeeBee wrote:

Would it be possible to tweak Chessic to play on FICS? At least it
connects you to ICC.
http://www.orcsoftware.com/~jocke/chessic/

http://www.stratlabs.com/
is maybe another.

I'll check them.

The author of Sigma Chess is pondering to implement it in the next
version, I believe. Maybe even in the free light version.

That would be great. I use Sigma Chess and it's a great program, and
it's a very nice interface.

Kirk

David Richerby wrote:

There's always javaboard http://www.freechess.org/javaboard/. If you're
using MacOS X, you should be able to get xboard or one of the other Unix/
Linux programs to work.

Thanks, I didn't know about the javaboard.

I'll look at some of the other Unix programs - maybe they'll compile on
OS X.

Kirk

For OS X there is also "jin chess client" (I never tested it because I use
OS 9 at home), but it has an OS X version to download.

http://www.jinchess.com/


From: (Kirk McElhearn)
Organization: Wanadoo, l'internet avec France Telecom
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.misc
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 16:32:01 +0100
Subject: Macintosh ICC/FICS client?

Is there anything other than Fixation? I find the interface ugly, and
many of the pieces look alike, unless the board is tiny. Any
alternatives?

Kirk

Yes - for OS X there is Chessic:
http://www.orcsoftware.com/~jocke/chessic/
I've used it and it works. I've been using Virtual PC with the ICC
application, but not what I understand the interface/IRC a little better I
will try go back to checking out Chessic. Its free, and works with 10.2 and
up (don't know about 10.3).

Jim



On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 11:32:01 -0400, Kirk McElhearn wrote
(in message ):

Is there anything other than Fixation? I find the interface ugly, and
many of the pieces look alike, unless the board is tiny. Any
alternatives?

Kirk



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