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Chessic is an interface to the Internet Chess Club (ICC) that allows you to play chess against other opponents over the internet.
Chessic provides all the basic functionality you need to get started on the ICC:
- Nice anti-aliased scalable/resizable/configurable gameboard
- Support for professional fonts such as Linares, Zurich and Hastings
- Graphical "seek" window to find available game opponents
- Graphical annotation of examined games using Bob Hyatt's Crafty chess engine
- 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
- Move list that supports the professional Linares Figurine chess font
- 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 is new in this release:
- Support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (64-bit optimized only)
- Crafty post-game analysis uses all available processor cores (up to 16)
- Bug fixes (resizing no longer flips pieces, both default fonts works properly again).
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