Linux boasts of the strongest chess entity in the form of Hydra which replaced Deep Blue (IBM RS/6000 powerhouse). More info : look at an article on slashdot posted by Captain Bubudiu http://games.slashdot.org/games/05/06/25/1831213.shtml?tid=231&tid=202&tid=10 However Gnuchess and Xboard are the weakest when you compare Winboard (Xboard on windows) or even Xboard/Gnuchess to Fritz 1. Xboard/Gnuchess do not have the features of Fritz 1 yet Fritz 9 is being released this fall. It is time for the developers to look at Hydra's example and pull their socks. As for this being off-topic Xboard and Gnuchess are in FC3 main repo's (I still use FC3), so there is no issue of this belonging in the extras list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Core - The power of Open Source Now! Please search the archives and fedoraforum.org as the question is likely to have been asked before. Cheers Captain Bubudiu ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com