On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 02:37 +0930, Tim wrote: > > 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. Afaik the eboard app (if that was what you used) does not allow you to make invalid moves so I guess it follows traditional rules. > 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. ;-) Indeed. I used to play about 30 years ago with my father. I got beaten then and after I installed my eboard rpm I got beaten by gnuchess in a whim. Even after retracting several silly moves which I only noticed because gnuchess showed me all corners. That pretty much killed the fun factor for me. > 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. I like the Gnome Mahjongg game but it does require your undivided attention. Works for me when I need to take my mind of things for a while. Perhaps the on-line game you mean is Freeciv? Last time I played it it was quite entertaining and development seems to continue nicely with a new release (2.0.6) about a week ago. You can install it with: yum install freeciv. It's about 4.5Mb. Regards, Patrick
