What's wrong with stepping back a pace and re-looking at the old way, when people used to do it by post with a real player. We could do with a chess club to this end; but sending very succinct emails, sms messages of moves is the easiest thing in the world and each follows the plot on their own real board and pieces. People used to play chess across the world like this before the net was invented, so it would be helped by the turn-around time of this additional coms medium. With news groups and dedicated email lists; you could have multiple public games even; so long as only two parties dictated their respective moves; spectators could follow for their interest or critical analysis. RobH. > Samuel Thibault <sthibault@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> A blind colleague of mine was looking for a way to play chess online. >> Gnuchess is textmode but doesn't play online. Playing FICS by hand is >> not really easy. I haven't found a textual frontend for FICS, only >> graphical frontends which draw the board by hand and thus aren't >> accessible. >> >> Any idea? > > This might be promising. > > Package: emacs-chess > New: yes > State: not installed > Version: 2.0b5-3 > Priority: extra > Section: games > Maintainer: Mario Lang <mlang@xxxxxxxxxx> > Uncompressed Size: 1,585k > Depends: emacs22 | emacs21 > Recommends: emacs-chess-pieces > Suggests: gnuchess | phalanx | crafty > Description: a client and library for playing Chess from Emacs > emacs-chess is a chessboard display for Emacs which allows to to play > Chess > from within Emacs. It can also be used to play via Internet Chess Servers > against other human opponents. emacs-chess is still in beta, read the > Info > manual to get started. > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list