On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:44:03PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 04:07:55PM +0200, Patrik Fimml wrote: > > the latest eboard package in unstable is version 1.0.3-1. It is rather > > unusable, because it keeps crashing frequently (#452686). Meanwhile, > > upstream > > has moved on to version 1.1.1, released three months ago. > > > > [...] > > Is xboard a suitable replacement?
Not really. xboard provides some very basic functionality, but is not really user-friendly. You can play games on FICS, the Free Internet Chess Server, however you only have the console and a chessboard, which makes seeking opponents and chatting difficult. (AFAIK. If there's more to it, please tell me.) A program that is probably similar in functionality to eboard would be knights, a Qt chess interface. Patrik PS: oops, replied directly instead of to the list.
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