Difference between revisions of "Activities/Gnuchess"

Revision as of 08:50, 25 July 2012

Gnuchess is a Sugar front end to the gnuchess program [1], a computer program for playing chess.

The Gnuchess activity is not yet available for download from the Sugar Activity Library: Gnuchess

New game: Start a new game.
Undo: Revert last move (When playing against the robot, the last two moves are reverted.)
Hint: Used to offer a hint to the current player
Message area: Current status, e.g., Hint, Check, Checkmate, et al.
Stop Button: Exit the activity

Activity Toolbar

Activity name field: used to change the name of the activity
Reflection Button: used to write descriptions for the Journal entry of this instance of Portfolio
Share Button: disabled (Gnuchess Activity does not yet support sharing)

Fullscreen: Used to show board at full screen with no toolbars showing. (Type ESC to return from Fullscreen mode.)
Playback: Playback the current game as an animation.
Game history: See a transcript of the game history in algebraic chess notation [2].
White: Display of White's most recent move
Black: Display of Black's most recent move

Play White: You play White, your opponent plays Black
Play Black: You play Black, your opponent plays White
Easy: This is the minimal setting for gnuchess: "book off" and "depth 1"
Hard: This is default setting for gnuchess, which includes "book on"
Play against the computer: The computer will move automatically
Play against a person: Take turns on the same computer (sharing not yet implemented)

Used to load custom artwork for each piece from the Sugar Journal.

You can soon report bugs and make feature requests on our bug-tracking system (You need to create an account first). To list all open tickets of Gnuchess you can use query component=Gnuchess. You are also welcome to leave comments/suggestions on the Talk:Activities/Gnuchess page.

The Sugar wrapper for GNU Chess was written and is maintained by User:Walter.

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 ;Custom-toolbar Button: (toolbar described below)
-;New game: Starts a new game.
+;New game: Start a new game.
-;Undo: Reverts last move (When playing against the robot, the last two moves are reverted.)
+;Undo: Revert last move (When playing against the robot, the last two moves are reverted.)
 ;Hint: Used to offer a hint to the current player
-;Message area: Used to indicate current status
+;Message area: Current status, e.g., Hint, Check, Checkmate, et al.
-;Stop Button: used to exit the activity
+;Stop Button: Exit the activity
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