Re: A working Gnuchess (at last!)

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Nikhil Nair writes ("Re: A working Gnuchess (at last!)"):
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> Yes, it makes perfect sense (I did myself, after all).  I suppose I 
> assumed (withouttt thinking about it very much) that most sighted people 
> would want to use it with xboard ....  Shall I change that to Suggests? 
> - that might be more appropriate.

I agree.

> BTW, Ian, you mentioned you ussed gnuchessc ... could you briefly explain 
> to me how it works? :-)  The documentation says it uses the `chesstool' 
> program on Suns &c, but I haven't found that, and running the program 
> just puts my machine in a graphics mode :-( (not very helpful when you're 
> using /dev/vcsa0 to read it ...).

It prints a chessboard on the screen, using inverse video to show the
squares, and a letter inside each square for the pieces.  ISTR there's
some status info and stuff on the right hand side of the screen.

Ian.