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E-mail correspondence chess

I'm starting a game of chess by e-mail, and I'm all excited. I want to use software that'll keep a history of the game for me and let me see the game so that I don't have to set up a physical board. It turns out there's a ton of software to do this.

• IceChess (though, the author lost the source code to it?)
• MailChess
• Interchess ($20)
• ECTool (€20)
• ChessTool
• thatchess looks like it might be neat.

I'll paste more when I find them. For now, I'm going to try ChessTool. Yikes (just installed it), the scrollbar flashes in the program. Weird Update: I'd recommend against ChessTool. Now trying MailChess. Update: Nah, too complicated. And neither so far has had an "undo" button. Using IceChess for now. But the board is too tiny and not resizeable.

Update: Here's a big list of chess programs I'm going to go through. I don't really like any of the programs specifically meant to do e-mail that I've tried. All I really want is a "viewer" program.

Update: Lots more links:

• Jose - pretty awesome, and has a great 3D view. Update: the whole thing is kind of klunky, slow, and glichy, particularly the 3D view. Ah well. The 2D view is still good. I'll use it for now. Update: No, I won't. I can't get the computer to stop playing, so it's not good for correspondence chess.
• XBoard and WinBoard
• Arena
• Skid
• Knights (for KDE)

Here are a bunch more chess links. I should mention the Internet Chess Club here. I used to be a member a while ago, and it's a great service. Unfortunately, their Windows interface, Blitzin, doesn't let you use its features when not connected to the server.

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