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Title: Chess Playing/Studying Software
Post by: steven999 on April 03, 2004, 02:43:10 am

Hi all,

I\'ve recently gotten back into chess and was interested to see if anyone else here studies or plays chess on their Z, as well as if there\'s any interesting software--commercial or otherwise--that people would recommend.  I currently have Knights installed and play once in a while, but was interested to find ouf it there were any good chess databases that are available or would be possible to port.

Thanks!
steven

Title: Chess Playing/Studying Software
Post by: ScottYelich on April 04, 2004, 02:25:18 pm

knights is far far far too weak.
the java chess is a joke.

gnuschess + xboard / qboard is worthy.

ALso, eboard w/ pdaxrom would be great.

Scott
ps: icc client? too bad blitzen doesn\'t run.

Title: Chess Playing/Studying Software
Post by: steven999 on April 04, 2004, 08:56:30 pm

Hi Scott,

I\'m a little confused as you can swap in engines for Knights (the version I installed has both Phalanx and Gnuchess).  I\'m not a big fan of the interface for knights though; I\'ll look into qboard though, thanks!

I\'ve been more curious about chess databases than game playing on the go lately but haven\'t yet found a good program for studying games.  

thanks
steven