Author: Martin Andersen
Date: 13:22:57 11/23/03
Hi! Some good news and some bad news. The good news is I got the Playchess.com software to run pretty well, it seems quite stable. I can watch games with the nice chessboard in smooth graphics, I can see what games are on etc. I even have news at the left, which seems to open in Internet Explorer, which I have installed. Also this sphere of the world works nicely. I'm only logged in as guest so I haven't tested all the features. Now, with chessclub.com BlitzIn 2.34, it runs but seems a bit buggy. I prefer the Jin client here, www.jinchess.com, which is excellent for playing at ICC. I also tried installing The arena software (0.95 with chess programs), it would not start :-( Rebel Decade 3.0 also failed. I used Crossover office 2.1 for these tests (www.codeweavers.com), there's a 30 days free trial and there after it costs $60. No Windows is needed, although you have to agree to some license when installing Explorer 6.0. So what has been the point ? Well, I hate it when some company shuts out non-windows users as Chessbase has done with Playchess.com. My test shows that they cannot stop Linux users. Also, I miss a nice GUI for chess engines in Linux. xboard is terrible, Scid is more of a database, I have struggled with jose, but no success, and slibo (http://slibo.sourceforge.net) also fails. Martin.
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