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Subject: Re: Linux and Windows chess programs

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 01:04:47 11/24/03

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On November 23, 2003 at 16:22:57, Martin Andersen wrote:

>Hi!
>
>Some good news and some bad news.

(after reading the whole thing I was not sure what exactly the good news is :p)


>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.

I'm glad you tried out these things and I surely don't want to discourage you to
do further investigations, but do you really think you've found a viable option?
 I'm afraid but it doesn't sound like it, to me. *shrugs*

As for Arena running under Wine/whatever. Can you use Linux-native engines in it
? If not, it sounds pretty useless to me as well.


>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.

I couldn't agree more... sadly that counts for Macs too. When I want to observe
multiple games in ICC, I have no way in Linux and only the horrible way of using
Fixation under OSX. *sighs*

Sargon



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