Author: ERIQ
Date: 14:57:45 11/23/03
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On November 23, 2003 at 16:22:57, Martin Andersen wrote: >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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