I wrote:
>> P.S.: if anyone wanna play, I'm mlang on freechess.org:5000
Boris Daix <Boris.Daix@insa-lyon.fr> replied:
> I'd love but I'm behind firewall... :-( but I hope it will be ported
> into official Debian packages list soon... !
Oh, you caught me there :). I already promised to do the packaging,
and I promise again, I'll do it as soon as I find
a bit more time.
Since then, emacs-chess is really simple to install, you just need to
download from emacs-chess.sourceforge.net the tar-ball, extract it
somehwere in your home-directory, run make and add something like the
following to your .emacs:
;;; Chess.el
(let ((chessdir (expand-file-name
"~/emacs/lisp/chess")))
(when (file-directory-p chessdir)
(add-to-list 'load-path chessdir)
(setq chess-sound-directory (concat chessdir "/sounds"))))
(when (load "chess-auto" t)
(setq
chess-default-display 'chess-plain
chess-ics-server-list '(("freechess.org" 5000 "myname"))
chess-plain-black-square-char 43
chess-plain-draw-border t
chess-plain-white-square-char 45
chess-plain-spacing 0))
Now do M-x chess RET to start-up a game agsinst crafty if
everything went fine. If you want to call another chess module,
prefix with C-u, so for internet chess servers, do
C-u M-x chess RET ics RET
There are different modules, look in the sources or see the info manual.
Note: I've contributed to chess-plain especially for braille display usage.
You can for instance configure each individual piece character
through variable `chess-plain-piece-chars'. This includes the
white and black pieces.
There is also `chess-plain-upcase-indicates' which can be set to
'color or 'square-color. Be creative :)
AFAIK there is no emacspeak support for emacs-chess yet, but it should
be really trivial to add, as text-properties label each
square.
--
CYa,
Mario