Janina Sajka <janina@afb.net> writes: > Hmmm, don't know about emacs-chess. I do know that GNU Chess works very > well. well, gnuchess is a chess-engine. emacs-chess is a chessboard interface. So it's more general, you can use it to play against other humans on the internet for example. gnuchess can't do that for you. P.S.: if anyone wanna play, I'm mlang on freechess.org:5000 > On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Mario Lang wrote: >> >> 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