Re: chess program recommendations?

[Tom Allison <tallison1@twmi.rr.com>]

Karsten M. Self wrote:

> on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 09:05:52PM -0800, Kurt Lieber (debian@kirpatrick.com) wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for a good chess program for Debian.  I've done apt-cache search 
> > chess, so I know the options out there.  I'm looking for recommendations from 
> > people that have played some/all of them.
> >
> > Something that has a reasonably intelligent AI so I can play the computer.  
> > Also, I'd prefer a GUI-based program so I don't have to worry about knight 6, 
> > king 8 and all that stuff.  And, though this may be far-fetched, a program 
> > that supported 2-person games over the internet would be ideal.  
> >
> > Any recommendations?
>
> gnuchess & xboard.

didn't work for me.  Configuration was hosed.
uninstalled it out of frustration.

Couldn't set it to play against the computer or network play.