Hi Folks

I am new on the forum. I only resently started out with Mandriva --- which I am enjoying a lot. I got Mandriva 2007.0.

Is there a chess game that I can load --- or is there a way to load xboard?

Cheers,
Isix

If you have xboard installed there should be a menu entry in, More Apllications/Games/Arcade, or just bring up a terminal/konsole, Start Menu/System/Terminals/Konsole (assuming KDE) and type xboard

I however prefer eboard, you'll have to have a chess engine installed, but that should be installed as dependencies when you choose/chose. eboard or xboard. I like crafty, you can also use gnuchess, whatever. Also you might like to look at glchess, they are all available through MCC software manager.

If you have a puter gutsy enough, you may like "brutalchess" which is an openGL implementation of winboard:
http://brutalchess.sourceforge.net/
There's also Jose ( http://jose-chess.sourceforge.net/ ) which is both a 3-D chessboard AND a chess (pgn) database manager, very nice looking, but also demanding, resources-wise (it's a java app).

I second what jagwah said about eboard. Also Crafty is a much better engine than gnuchess.