New online chess game + UI for Crafty

[shiv]

Does not work for me. I get the message stating that I need Flash 8. I am running firefox 2 on linux. Interestingly, youtube.com and other flash enabled sites work without any problem.

I see that the site is powered by ajax and flash. I have no problems with other flash and ajax applications.

[Nid Hogge]

Does not work here either.

"Initial Connection Failed!" message pops up everytime I try to connect.

[Marc MP]

Does not work here either.

"Initial Connection Failed!" message pops up everytime I try to connect.

It might be temporary. I'm using Firefox 2.0 for windows and it was working two days ago. I even played a game against the developper and chatted a bit with him. Nice guy. But tonight I also get "Initial Connection Failed!".

[mishoo]

This was fixed. (server shutdown... it still has some problems; I restarted it.).

[mishoo]

Does not work for me. I get the message stating that I need Flash 8. I am running firefox 2 on linux. Interestingly, youtube.com and other flash enabled sites work without any problem.

Not sure what could be wrong... First check that you have Flash Player Plugin version 8 or later.

If you are using Flashblock Firefox extension, you need to whitelist chess.dynarch.com. Otherwise, it could be a firewall problem (the chess server runs on the standard port 80, but some firewalls may block traffic because it's not HTTP). If you have a firewall, try to temporarily disable it and see if it works.

PS: Linux here too so this can't be the issue.

[shiv]

Got it to work in a unorthodox manner. I still get a message saying that I need flash 8, but double clicking on the message shows the login window anyway! The rest worked.

Not sure why the application incorrectly thinks I do not have flash 8. However, it does work

[mishoo]

Support for Fruit is now available. I'll be able to add easily other UCI-capable engines (suggestions appreciated). Also, if anyone would like to host engines, please drop me a note (it needs a Linux machine permanently connected, Perl and some modules, it has very low bandwidth requirements). I only have one machine to spare and 2 engines are already too much for it.

Some features are missing (it won't detect mate/stalemate when it occurs as a result of a move from the engine, but I'll implement this in the next few days.)

For now Fruit is limited to 5 sec. per move (I should really implement proper time control...).