Author: Jim Bodkins
Date: 14:27:10 11/24/03
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On November 24, 2003 at 16:48:23, Martin Andersen wrote: >Hi! > >I have taken 2 screenshots of native Linux chess programs, >Jin and jose, take a look here: www.al-data.dk/chess > >Jin is a chess client which you connect to ICC or FICS. >It's very stable and feature-rich. > >jose is a graphical chess tool you can use as a database, >to analyse a game or play against a chess engine. > >Now, since there seems to be a growing interest in porting chess >engines to Linux, it could be nice if the companies bundled jose >and the their engine on the CD-rom, instead of just selling the >Windows version with bells and whisles and adding a Linux engine as >"a bonus". It wouldn't take much time and resources since jose >is licensed under the GPL. It's only required that they know java and >that they put the source-code of any changes made >to jose on the CD-rom or a web page. > >Martin. I installed Jose, imported a rather large DB and 'broke' it. Couldnt get any responses from the author so it was removed. This is common with open source. Good as far as it goes. Some goes farther than others. Commercial is much better. What do you save? What is the tradeoff? ~$100 for headaches. I'll pay. Jose did look nice, but doesnt work in my experience.
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