w3Chess is a Web- and Mail- based chess board. I built this to play chess over Internet with my friends. If you play chess via E-Mail, you have several problems:
· You need a chessboard in your house for every opponent
· You could drop your board down an loose the actual piece positions
· You can set a piece wrong and your boards doesn't look like your opponents one anymore
I searched for such programs but the I only found chess-servers, or tools which depends on sql-databases and javascript.
But I hate Java-Script and I hate huge dependencies for small solutions.
Here are some key features of "w3Chess":
· few dependencies (it's written in c)
· high compatiblity (it's written in c, should also work under unfree Gaming Systems from Redmond)
· it should run fast (it's written in c)
· it should need less system ressources (do i have to say it ?)
· it should display the actual board via (any) Web-Browser (no JavaScript, even lynx should do it)
· you should have the moves stored at home (E-Mail-Notifications....)
· you shouldn't be able to do wrong moves
· you shouldn't do moves if it is not your turn
· the administration should be easy (old games are removed after nn days)
· the usage should be easy (no "cosmetic" features, easy translation)
· you should be able to search for an opponent
· your pieces should be at the bottom
Supported languages:
· German
· English
· Italian, thanks to Carlo !
· Brazilian Portuguese, thanks to Fabio !
· Spanish, thanks to Pablo !
What's New in This Release:
· charset-Tag in Mail-Header
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