Chess for Android: FICS client in alpha

[PeterO]

Hi Aart,

great work - Chess for Android gets better and better - GREAT!
Thank you so much Aart!!!

[PeterO]

Will the DGT 3000 also support the Millenium Chess Genius exclusive board?

Peter

[abik]

Unfortunately FICS (and ICC also) is slowly dying as it loses users to more modern chess servers. Just take a look at https://www.ficsgames.org/stats.html year by year.

It is not impossible support for other servers will follow if I there is an active demand for those. The underlying protocols are probably similar, so the incremental work compared to writing a client from scratch in Chess for Android may be relatively simple.

I focus on FICS right now just to limit the number of variables during development. Furthermore, I have a good relation with the FICS team. They have been very helpful during initial testing.

[abik]

Will the DGT 3000 also support the Millenium Chess Genius exclusive board?

That seems unlikely, right? Two different vendors.

[mclane]

Thanks Aart. Brilliant as usual.
I do have millenium board and dgt and will try it out.