Mario Lang <mlang@teleweb.at> writes: > 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 I'd love but I'm behind firewall... :-( but I hope it will be ported into official Debian packages list soon... ! > >> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Boris Daix "Feel free to be free, or not to be..."