Chessbook software

[Rob Wehrli]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Phil Winninghoff wrote:

> When I retired I decided to learn how to play chess and bought a few

Hey Phil, how you doin?


> books to that end. As someone not experienced with the game I found that
> I had to have at least one, and many times several, boards in front of
> me to follow the moves. The diagrams in the books were helpful, but not
> frequent enough. I am afraid I lack a photographic mind. Several years
> ago I tried to address this problem by purchasing some chess software
> that runs on MS Windows machines. It was not exactly what I wanted so I
> began to write my own. I only knew MS Dos at the time (:>( ) so that is
> what I began with.  My monitor was old so I used graphics mode 19 (320 X
> 200 pix resolution) and was unable to get text and graphics on the
> screen at the same time. Big time limitation. Then I discovered Linux
> and Xfree86. Now I have a rather crude version working that is an
> improvement over the printers ink on paper varieties of chess books and
> I want to share it with others without photographic minds who read such
> books.  I went to a couple meetings of this group and decided I may be
> able to find someone interested in having a look at what I am doing. I
> can email the source, the data file and Makefile. It should compile on
> anything that has the Xfree86 library. It requires 1024 x 768 the way it
> is set up, but a simple change to the source can change that.

As a hardcore chess lover and decidedly ever-more aggressively
anti-micro$haft, I'd like to see your work.  I'll bring a chess set with
me if you'd like a game after the dev meeting tomorrow.  It is tomorrow,
right?


Take Care.

Rob!