Game Chess, How to play in Ubuntu with computer.

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:42:25 +0530
Vilas Sukhadeve <vilas_sukhadeve at dataone.in> wrote:

> Hello Friends, 
> I have down loaded the Emacs chess,gnome-chess,chess-2.Ob5, all these
> files are stored in Home. Most of the files are text files, as soon as I
> open them the text is appeared but how to open them as a board game and
> play chess with computer. I tried my best and failed. Will somebody
> guide me how to do it.

It might be easier to install the following from your synaptic package
manager or with apt-get/aptitude:

gnuchess
xboard

xboard is in the universe repository. See

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AddingRepositoriesHowto

Running xboard will give you an interactive game against the machine, and
quite a few options. There are other prettier front-ends, like eboard,
which also works with gnuchess. Gnome-chess is quite similar to xboard,
and looks pretty clunky ( just installed it to have a look )

Peter

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