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Subject: Re: A question to G. Zimmermman

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 15:05:47 06/14/00

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On June 14, 2000 at 13:51:13, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:

>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 :)

I had a look at CClient some time ago and found it apaling. Clumsy cluttered
screens, not following normal window inside window standards, ugly board, etc.
etc. I actually prefered Winboard but found it lacking in powerfeatures like
seekgraph and notify lists But I'm looking forward to someone giving me a link
to Freak. ( Perhaps I will do a FTP search for it, but it will have to wait for
me moving to a new PC. )

Torstein




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