THANK YOU! the window is a bit klunky (the bottom row of the board is cut in half), but I don't think anything critical is missing. I'll play around with it and let you know if anything important seems missing.

I can confirm that it appears to correctly access crafty as its chess engine, so all analysis features should work fine. I'll have to see how it displays variations and tree searches.

btw, since you deserve to know something about the app you ported , scid is a tool for handling chess databases. so, given a file containing games or positions, scid lets you load a game. search for a position, move the pieces around and explore different variations (and save new ones), and analyze positions through crafty.

it's very instructive to analyze the games of chess grandmasters on a move-by-move basis. So, being able to load a game, try out alternatives (and see why they're NOT chosen), is a really useful study tool.

Anyway, thanks again!

scott

does anyone know how to make chess in game maker

More news about chess programs.

For the Palm, Openchess works ok for displaying games, though it crashes for me when actually playing games. However, it seems to me that the display is a lot better on my Treo than on my N800!

I don't care about playing games so much, as (a) I'm not interested in computer chess, and (b) for the kind of chess I prefer today, 1-minute chess (maximum time for a game = 2 total minutes if both sides use up all their allotted time), tablet chess is just too slow.

In other news, I was under the impression that Scid had disappeared, but it still exists and can be used to view games under Diablo.

In other Scid news (Scid is the best chess database available in Linux), the Scid project has been revived after Shaun (the S in Shaun's Chess Isomething Database) gave permission for enthusiastic and sophisticated third-parties to take it over. So newer versions of Scid are being made available quickly, though I'm not sure they have yet reached official releases of Debian yet.

So, if you're a chess enthusiast and a porter/developer, you might want to keep an eye on the Scid progect.