[PLUG] chess

[Darxus <darxus@op.net>]

I have some interest in chess.  The recent slashdot article on solving
chess (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/04/20/019221), a subject I've
pondered a bit, caused this interest to resurface.

I have begun playing with 3 neat toys.  In order:

GNU chess (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/chess or package name gnuchess):
This is an AI that will play against you.  I generally get about 18 moves
before getting checkmated.  It's got a very primitave text interface that
I wouldn't want to spend much time using.  But it's compatible with...

xboard:  A chess gui.  That's all.  It won't play you.  But it will work
as a frontend to gnu chess, and...

www.freechess.org:  Very neat.  They have GUIs for like, everything (they
suggest xboard for linux).  Run "xboard -ics -icshost freechess.org" and
it'll load up xboard, and start a telnet like connection to freechess.org.  
You can log in, and find other people to play against, and then play them.

Looks like I got 41 moves before getting mated with this random guy in an
unrated game.  He must have sucked :)

I'm going to go get my ass whupped in a rated game now.

Feel free to connect to freechess.org & "tell Darxus I'm here to kick your
ass."
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