The title says it all. Try to come up with a good name for a gui, and your creativity will be rewarded with high praise, written credit, and hopefully an awesome free chess gui.
I already mentioned on the Winboard forum that I've put Sloppy's development on a low priority because I'm now working on a free (GPL) cross-platform gui with a friend. It runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX, supports Xboard and UCI protocols, Polyglot opening books, Standard chess, Chess 960, and Capablanca variants (including Gothic Chess). The first version isn't going to be packed full of features, but the sane architecture design makes feature expansion relatively straightforward. Experience has taught me not to make any predictions of a release date, but we do already have a lot of very important stuff done. If someone's interested, I can show what we've done so far, what's to be done next, and what kind of development process we use.
Thanks, and a happy new year to everyone.
I need a name for a chess gui application
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ilari
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Ómar
Re: I need a name for a chess gui application
Hi Ilari.
And why not CB protokol also, and if you can, we can call it ALL GUI
And why not CB protokol also, and if you can, we can call it ALL GUI
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Dirt
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Re: I need a name for a chess gui application
Terrarium comes immediately to mind, but I wouldn't recommend it. You've probably already rejected The Sloppy GUI.
Luminous sounds nice. Or maybe Trinity, for standard chess, FRC and Capablanca.
Luminous sounds nice. Or maybe Trinity, for standard chess, FRC and Capablanca.
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F. Bluemers
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Re: I need a name for a chess gui application
no don't.
please not yet another gui
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Fonzy
please not yet another gui
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Fonzy
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Dr.Wael Deeb
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Re: I need a name for a chess gui application
ViewChess....
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Bill Rogers
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Re: I need a name for a chess gui application
Being that it runs almost everything why not call it "Wizzard"
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mcostalba
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Re: I need a name for a chess gui application
[quote="ilari"I'm now working on a free (GPL) cross-platform gui with a friend. It runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX[/quote]
What GUI library do you use? GTK, Qt, wxWidgets, something else?
Just a curiosity.
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Marco
What GUI library do you use? GTK, Qt, wxWidgets, something else?
Just a curiosity.
Thanks
Marco
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Dann Corbit
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Re: I need a name for a chess gui application
Before naming it, I think it would be helpful to know exactly what it does.
Does it have database functionality?
Does it play games over the internet?
Does it organize contests?
Does it analyze your games for you?
I am fond of naming things after their function.
Does it have database functionality?
Does it play games over the internet?
Does it organize contests?
Does it analyze your games for you?
I am fond of naming things after their function.