BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  SynChess is now available
De:       Nightfox
Data:     Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:50:22 -0700
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  hbRenb: hcSynChess is now available
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 ne> Claude and I have been working hard on bringing you a nice chess game just
 ne> for Synchronet sysops and I'm please to announce SynChess 1.0 is available
 ne> for you in giblab.

 ne> Installation is easy and instructions are included in the readme.txt file.
 ne> I've not tried the install-xtrn.ini so if someone would like to give it a
 ne> go and let me know, I'd appreciate it. For now, it just has player v
 ne> computer.

I set up SynChess on my BBS, and it looks like a good chess game.

I was wondering, what is jpegXL? I'm using SyncTerm, and when I ran SynChess, I saw what looked like fairly standard CP437 graphics with ANSI colors (with the chess board with blue and cyan squares).  The only mention of jpegXL is once near the top of the instructions, so I'm not sure if I need to do something to enable jpegXL or not (and I don't even know what jpegXL is).

Also, as far as Stockfish, the instructions mention installing Stockfish, but nothing about setting up SynChess to use Stockfish.. I only realized how to enable Stockfish with SynChess when I copied the .ini file to synchess.ini and saaw the stockfish settings in there.  It might be good to include a section in the instructions describing the settings in the .ini.

Also, it might be good for the setting for the stockfish binary to have a more descriptive name than just "path".

Nightfox
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