It may be excellent as that kind of learning tool, especially if you want to learn to think in a brute-force, mechanical way, but if you want to learn from the games of humans by playing through their games, it is impossible. The programmer would have been creating a more useful game if he hadn't bothered to make it play chess at all, just display games. But I've never been a fan of computer chess...

I made a quick port of the XBoard program.

You can get it at http://www.v7f.eu/public/n800/chess/

I started this morning working on XBoard, but I know
have an EBoard port working:



http://www.v7f.eu/public/n800/chess/

Eboard works great for my purposes! I am just using it to look at games. Castling and en passant worked. I didn't try promoting a pawn yet, and I didn't try playing online I did open several games at once. I want to try it for watching live international tournaments, which would be a blast. I think that eboard won't work on icc but just fics (rival chess servers). xboard works on both. But I like eboard quite a bit. Next I'll see if I can load a pgn file somehow...

Edit: I played and won my first 5-minute game on fics.

Hello, i have downloaded an started the .deb file, I got from http://www.v7f.eu/public/n800/chess/ for the EBoard program. But after starting the installation I got the message that it is incompatible.

In the logfile I can see the following content:

What exactly could be the problem?

best regards,
jukey

Good question. This version of eboard is still working great for me, but of course I upgraded from the earlier version. I would suggest that you try the earlier version, but I don't know where it is. Hopefully the programmer will see our messages soon and come to the rescue.

You should still be able to install it from an xterm (as root): dpkg -i /media/mmc1/eboard_1.0.3-10_armel.deb
until the developer fixes the control file.

Thank you very much, TA-t3! :-)

After installing xterm, the becomeroot tool an your code line I was able to install the eboard.

I whish you a nice weekend!

Ciao jukey

Hello,

i have imported my little chessdatabase (200 games in a pgn file) and i was able to load a single game from this database.

But there seems to be a bug: i've pushed the play button for the first move and the pawn (e2-e4) no longer was visible on the board. some of the next moves where displayed correctly but some of them where not displayed too.

Is there somebody, who has the same problem or an idea, what's the problem?

Ciao jukey

The problem is solved. It was the layout of the pgn-file:

Games in a pgn-file wich are formated in the short-form (e.g.: 1.e4 e5 2. ...) will work correctly. The long form (e.g. 1.e2-e4 e7-e5 2. ...) don't work in the right way.

So it's a good workaround to convert the pgn-file before importing it into eboard.

Ciao jukey