BeChess

Version 1.2: (coming soon ...)

• GunChess: Engine selection in preferences.
• Addons: The addon architecture is mostly in place. There are a few odds and ends I am trying to clean up. Sean Johnson is finishing up a Seek window similar to what Blitzin has.

Version 1.1:

• Timestamp: When you use Timestamp, BeChess spawns a program called Timestamp on port 5500 on your computer. This program connects to ICC, and then BeChess connects to this program. This Timestamp program encodes your moves so that you do not suffer 'lag' on your chess clock. I have had a lot of difficulty with this Timestamp program. When BONE is available I will try to get it working better. The current problem is that you will be disconnected if your session goes idle for approximately 30 seconds. My way around this is to send a return character to the ICC server every 20 seconds. Hopefully you won't get disconnected too often at this. If you do, let me know and we can experiment a bit.
• GnuChess: I have included the 'CHESSTOOL' binary for GnuChess 4.0, this is the version that BeChess supports. Any chess program that follows this convention can be used with BeChess. I will be adding the ability to 'select' a chess engine to the preferences in the near future. Let me know if you are in a rush.
• You no longer require the 'chessboard' image that was released with previous versions. If a file named 'chessboard' exists in the BeChess directory, it will use it as your chessboard background. If it does not exist, BeChess will manually draw a board. Feel free to change the graphics for the board and pieces. If you come up with something interesting, please send it to me!