Board Games:   Chessic

File Size: 1127 Kb Price: Free By: Joakim Johansson

Chessic provides all the basic functionality you need to get started on the ICC:
- Nice anti-aliased scalable/resizable configurable game board leveraging the Quartz display engine
- Support for professional chess fonts like Linares, Zurich and Hastings as well as two free sets
- Graphical “seek” window to find available game opponents
- Graphical annotation of examined games using Bob Hyatt’s Crafty chess engine
- Game history list
- Integrated timestamp client support to eliminate the effects of internet latencies
- Flexible seek list for advertising which types of games you want to play
- Examine/observe games other than your own
- Sound alerts when 30,20,10 seconds remain of your alloted time
- Ability to save games in PGN (portable game notation) format
- All the nice Mac OS X UI features like customizable toolbars, drawers and sheets where appropriate

What’s New in this Version
- Support for configurable background textures and colors
- Support for a new free chess font (Smart) in addition to the previous one (Cheq)
- Support for high-quality commercial chess fonts (Linares, Zürich, Hastings) from www.partae.com
- Single click to move when only one valid destination for speed chess
- Optimized drawing routines (If anyone on the Shark team reads this, thank you!)
- Optimized networking routines
- Many more enhancements

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