Author: Georg v. Zimmermann
Date: 10:51:13 06/14/00
Go up one level in this thread
On June 14, 2000 at 09:50:42, Torstein Hall wrote: >On June 14, 2000 at 04:12:50, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: > >>>>Hi, >>>> >>>>Freak is at least 2 years "old", Thief more than a year. I know the Thief >>>>address by had, since I'm co-author :) http://www.d2d4.de/thief.asp >>>> >>>>For Freak look in the download section of the freechess.org webpage, it says you >>>>can get it at http://www.netti.fi/~freak ... Freak simply looks WAY better than >>>>Blitzin. >>> >>>I'm trying out Thief. So far it seems to be an improvement over CClient that I >>>have been using. Nice work! >> >>Thx >> >>>An attempt to visit the Freak download page was greeted by "HTTP Error 403 - >>>Forbidden". >> >>:-( I mailed the author about it. I'll tell you when the site is up again. > >I like the seek graph of Blitzin a lot. Makes it extremely easy to find an >oponent. Is that option in Freak or Thief? > >Torstein Freak has that feature and is generally very user-friendly. Thief is more a "power-user" client with many options no one needs and the rest text-based :). CClient has a seek graph as well and very helpfull lists, but you need to change the board setting, the default is ugly. I havn't heared from the Freak author so far. If I don't get a mail soon I'll put his program on an ftp somewhere, cause I really think many people would like it if they tried. Georg :)
This page took 0.01 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.