Chess assistant in Tcl/Tk?

Diego Molla

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Jul 13, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/13/00

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Hello,

Does anybody know of any RECENT Tcl/Tk-based chess assistant? I'm
stressing the word "recent" because I came across tkChess 0.03

http://pine.cs.yale.edu:4201/tkChess

But it runs on a very old version of Tcl-Tk with X extensions, which I
don't have (the webpage acknowledges that the version is "prehistoric").
I tried to install the system, and I got an error message that the
libraries tclX and tkX were not found...

What I want is not a program to play chess, but a program that can help
me display chess games move by move, and plan moves for correspondence
chess. tkChess looked just what I wanted.

Thanks,

Diego

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According to Diego Molla <molla...@my-deja.com>:
:I tried to install the system, and I got an error message that the

:libraries tclX and tkX were not found...

These are the librarie created by the TclX extension - which has nothing
to do with the X Window System, but is simply the extended tcl extension.

This C extension is available for downloading and building...

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Andreas Kupries

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Diego Molla <molla...@my-deja.com> writes:

> Does anybody know of any RECENT Tcl/Tk-based chess assistant? I'm
> stressing the word "recent" because I came across tkChess 0.03

> What I want is not a program to play chess, but a program that can
> help me display chess games move by move, and plan moves for
> correspondence chess. tkChess looked just what I wanted.

Freshmeat is your friend.

http://freshmeat.net/appindex/2000/06/11/960765368.html

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Shane Hudson

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Jul 14, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/14/00

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Diego,
I had never heard of tkChess, but I'm the author of a free chess
database program called "Scid" written in C++ and Tcl/Tk that works on
Unix or Windows operating systems, available at

http://members.xoom.com/sghudson/

that should do what you want, and a lot more.
It only uses "plain" Tcl/Tk, no TclX or ITcl etc, and should work with
any version of Tcl/Tk that is 8.0 or newer.

Cheers,
Shane Hudson

Diego Molla <molla...@my-deja.com> wrote:
: Hello,

: Does anybody know of any RECENT Tcl/Tk-based chess assistant? I'm

: stressing the word "recent" because I came across tkChess 0.03

: http://pine.cs.yale.edu:4201/tkChess

: But it runs on a very old version of Tcl-Tk with X extensions, which I
: don't have (the webpage acknowledges that the version is "prehistoric").

: I tried to install the system, and I got an error message that the

: libraries tclX and tkX were not found...

: What I want is not a program to play chess, but a program that can help

: me display chess games move by move, and plan moves for correspondence
: chess. tkChess looked just what I wanted.

: Thanks,

Diego Molla

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Jul 14, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/14/00

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Thanks for your information! I installed Scid without having a single
warning, and after a quick test, it does better than what I was hoping
to get.

Diego

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