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>Using Gnome Chess</TITLE
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>Gnome Chess Manual</TH
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> can be used to play against
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the GNU Chess or Crafty chess engines, view files in PGN format or
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play on chess servers like FICS. It provides an easy to easy-to-use
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graphical interface for this. This section describes basic usage of
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>, shown in . The window at first contains a chess
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board at the starting usual starting position.
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NAME="mainwindow-fig"
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>Figure 1. Gnome Chess Main Window</B
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SRC="./figures/main.png"></P
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NAME="playing-program"
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>Playing Against A Program</A
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> To play against a program, once you have added some via the
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Preferences dialog, select
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which will bring up a new game view in its own tab.
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By default you are white, simply begin moving the pieces and
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the program will respond.
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NAME="playing-server"
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>Playing On A Server</A
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> To play on a server, once you have added some via the
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Preferences dialog, select
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which will bring up a new game view in its own tab. It will
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also bring up an information area which is a terminal view of the
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chess server with an area to enter commands.
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>Playing On A Server</A
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> To open PGN formatted files, select
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which will bring up a new game view in its own tab. It will
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also bring up an information area which is a list of all the games
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> Clicking on any game will display it in the game view. You can then
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use the buttons under the list of moves to move forward and backward
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> The menu bar, located at the top of the <SPAN
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>, contains the following menus:
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> This menu contains:
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+ + + + + + + + -><SPAN
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This opens a PGN file which is saved on your computer.
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+ + + + + + + + -><SPAN
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This saves the moves of the current game in PGN format.
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> + + + + + + + -><SPAN
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A list of programs to play against. Selecting one opens
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> + + + + + + + -><SPAN
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A list of servers to play against. Selecting one opens
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a new game view and a info window displaying a terminal view of
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+ + + + + + + + -><SPAN
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This closes the current game view.
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+ + + + + + + + -><SPAN
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This quits the application.
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> This menu contains:
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>, which allows you to configure
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> This menu contains:
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> and displays this manual.
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which shows basic information about
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the author's name, the application version number,
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and the URL for the application's Web page if one
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>Gnome Chess Manual</TD
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