Author: Martin Andersen
Date: 03:40:55 11/24/03
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On November 24, 2003 at 04:04:47, Daniel Clausen wrote: >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. > I don't know, Arena didn't run. As you know there are many engines included with Arena that you could use if it worked. I think that's useful. > >>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* You could use Jin to observe multiple games in ICC, I do that all the time. And the graphics are beautiful. (www.jinchess.com). It's written in Java so it would probably run on Macs too. > >Sargon Martin.
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