Chess Game?

[Strangerdave]

Any one know of a good chess game that I can install where I play the computer?

-SD-

[livingtarget]

http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=989

As reported on slashdot the world champion chess program Schredder has been released in a version for Mac and Linux. This is important because it is the first time a major software player in the chess world has released a version of it's chess engine for Linux and the general public. There is a demo version of the linux client available for download.

A demo version but hey it might be something to look into. I just remembered that post on LinuxGamers. Hope it helps a bit.

It's worth pointing out I havent actually tried it, it might be rubbish.

[BoyOfDestiny]

Any one know of a good chess game that I can install where I play the computer?

-SD-

Try eboard and gnuchess. There is also xboard but I haven't tried it...

Anyway eboard is great, lots of themes, works with different chess engines, online play, text mode, etc etc!
http://eboard.sourceforge.net/
If you are running breezy (and have the repositores enabled) they are an apt-get away.

[lerrup]

Can you advise on a chess engine - I can't find one in the reps at the moment?

[Artis]

Can you advise on a chess engine - I can't find one in the reps at the moment?
gnuchess certainly is in the reps.

[Harleen]

I'm using knights as board. It also supports online play (just like eboard), but it needs KDE-libs.
I use phalanx as chess engine, because I hoped it would be inferior to gnuchess, but I'm losing against either one of these engines on any level...

Both knights and phalanx can be found in the repository

[Bluemystr]

I would give a disrecommendation to the front end "Gnome Chess" which is in the repositories.

It has a bad interface in the first place and when I try to start up a GnuChess engine session with it, the interface vanishes and the CPU usage goes through the roof necessitating a "kill -9 {pid number}" to bring the system back under control..

If you can manage to bring up a terminal that is.

Ciao.

[Strangerdave]

Thanks a lot guys for the help, I will definately try these out!! If there are any more feel free to post.

-SD-