Hello. Just wanted to inform you that there is a text-mode chessboard application for Linux which works at least with braille display quite well right now. The program is called emacs-chess, and is written on top of Emacs. It can be used to play against various chess-playing programs like crafty or gnuchess, and you can also use it to play chess on the Internet via one of the Free Internet Chess Servers. There are alot of other funny features, like chess-link.el which allows you to link to chess engines and let them play against themselves. PGN capabilities are also in place. Have a look, and tell the author if you like it! http://emacs-chess.sourceforge.net -- CYa, Mario