Tim: >> I'm not a chess player, but my mother asked me to find a decent chess >> game for her. I offered her GNU chess, but she claimed it didn't use >> the rules she knew (it wouldn't let her make certain moves). Are there >> different variations on how to place chess? Patrick: > Yup, it's called cheating :) Yes, well that had occurred to me. That, or simply having grasped the rules of the game wrong... But then I don't play, don't know the rules, so I can't look over her shoulder and spot the difference. Something like 25+ years ago, way back when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, a friend of mine tried to teach me chess. But my idea of enjoying myself is relaxing, not mental gymnastics. Things are already complicated enough without inventing pastimes with complex rules. ;-) Tetris is about my limit. And yes, I did find out about the on-line games you can play in Linux (forgotten the name of it now, though). I had quite a bit of fun with it shortly after installing the old Red Hat 8.0 Linux, playing against a friend and a couple of strangers. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
