fuzzylizard Posted December 7, 2002 Report Share Posted December 7, 2002 Hey, I am looking for a good chess game. By good I mean preferably 3d, with move analysis, different levels -- beginner, intermediate, expert -- and some form of teaching aspect to it. I have tried to look for chess games in the past and have become very confused. It seems that you can get a chess engine or a chess front end. Preferably I would like an all in one package. Anyone know of any good programs? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted December 9, 2002 Report Share Posted December 9, 2002 Unfortunately you have to go to Windows (Fritz is great, Chessmaster has all sorts of nice board layouts and options, but the engine is not as good as Fritz), for Linux there is Xboard and Crafty, but it's plain vanilla board layout. Analysis features are not so great, actually rather lousy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted December 9, 2002 Report Share Posted December 9, 2002 Try going to www.freshmeat.net and typing in chess in the search engine. There are lots of projects. Perhaps you will find what you are looking for.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted December 9, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2002 Tried that and got way too confused. Though I would look for a recommendation instead to spead the process up. Oh well, guess I gotta figure this one out on my own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted December 10, 2002 Report Share Posted December 10, 2002 For 3D, GlChess seems to be the best, and it uses good chess-engines as a back-end. Unfortunately, this program offers close to nothing to configure from the GUI, and does nothing else than basic chess (no training...). For a good GUI, I've heard that Knights and eboard are good. I never tried them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted December 10, 2002 Report Share Posted December 10, 2002 Also, I've read that BabyChess (http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~kunegis/babychess/) is good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted December 10, 2002 Report Share Posted December 10, 2002 I use Knights, for KDE. Its can use several different engines, like xboard, but it looks prettier. Out of interest does anyone remember a game called "Battle Chess" for the PC? Now there was a good chess game. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted December 10, 2002 Report Share Posted December 10, 2002 My favourite chess game is Quake 3. It is a lot like battle chess for the pc. Great looking GUI with 3d pieces and the AI is very advanced. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted December 11, 2002 Report Share Posted December 11, 2002 does anyone remember a game called "Battle Chess"I do remember it. I liked it too, but on Atari ;-) not PC (I never ever owned Windows: I went direct from Atari to Linux).You can still play Battle Chess with an Atari emulator. It works. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hea Posted December 11, 2002 Report Share Posted December 11, 2002 Tried to install the RedHat-rpm of the babychess. Well i had to download libpng2.so first > OK > urpmi babychess... > ok and... NOTHING!. No trace of the installed software. Not even with urpmf or urpme. I run KDE and there should have been menu/desktop entries. Well Redhat RPMs do not always work obviously, but why no errormessages. What actually happend. Have anyone else tried this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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