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Yeah, I've gotten more serious about my over-the-board chess play this year; after abstaining for many years. When i was a "young-buck" chess play decades ago, there were but a few good books and no huge Internet databases and ECO classifications of chess openings and variations. But when I started to recently get back into chess for the fun of a glass of wine with a friend and over-the-board play on a super nice chess board with 60mm squares, I could not help but notice how the world of chess has become so much more interesting with all the on-line databases and all the different approaches to analysis.

As a child, I think learning chess at 5 really helped contribute to a part of my young mental-development and now as an aging guy, I'm finding exploring chess again contributes again, to keeping the mind sharp and not to mention have a beer or glass of wine with a dear friend and playing a "real world" game versus a chess engine is really a nice way to spend the evening!

At chessgames.com for example I can explore an opening that I played over-the-board with a friend as part of the post-analysis of that game, and then when I get to a certain point, I download the PGN file and load it into a chess engine and continue playing a few variations against the computer long after my friend has good home and is off to work the next day.

Or, I can go to the same site and, as a member, search for all Bobby Fischers Najdorf games (in their DB) and download all and load them into my favorite chess engine if I'm in to the mood for "nerd play"..... versus playing with a friend over-the-board.

.. well, I'm interested in what other chess players here think and what they are doing, so that's why i posted this thread; not to bore you with what I'm doing in the chess world these days!

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eboard

EBOARD(6)							   Games Manual 							 EBOARD(6)

NAME

       eboard - a graphical chess board

SYNOPSIS

       eboard [-log] [-debug] [-dgtport device ]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page briefly describes the eboard command.

       eboard  is  a graphical chess board. It acts as an interface to chess engines (like GNU Chess, Sjeng and Crafty) and Internet Chess Servers
       (ICS) like FICS (http://www.freechess.org), and works as a browser for chess games saved as PGN (Portable  Game	Notation)  files.   eboard
       itself  is  not	a  chess  engine: it won't play games, it will just act as a graphical interface between programs that play games like GNU
       chess (or ICS servers) and the end-user.

       To move pieces click on the source square and then click to destination square. Optionally, you may drag the piece from the source  to  the
       destination  square  (you won't see the piece being dragged). To drop pieces on crazyhouse and bughouse variants (ICS-only) right-click the
       destination square and select the piece to drop from the popup menu.

       For help with ICS commands consult the server (most of them have online help and help channels).

       For help setting up associated programs (chess engines, timestamping, etc.)  see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/eboard  or	visit  the
       eboard  web site at http://eboard.sourceforge.net. If the documentation is not installed in your system, you can find it in the source dis-
       tribution, available from the web site.

OPTIONS

       -log   Log network communications to "~/LOG.eboard". Communications held in password mode are not logged.

       -debug Print miscellaneous debug info to "~/DEBUG.eboard".

       -dgtport device
	      Use the DGT board connected to the given device.

AUTHORS

       eboard is being developed by Felipe Bergo. This manual page was	written  by  Felipe  Bergo  <bergo@seul.org>  and  Daniel  Burrows  <dbur-
       rows@debian.org>.

WEBSITE

       http://eboard.sourceforge.net

								 January 22, 2007							 EBOARD(6)