Using WebChess to play a game
WebChess has an easy to learn but still powerfull interface.
Here youll see how things can be done.
After you have logged into webchess you will get a window opened and this is what it looks like:
This is a screenshot from WebChess you can see what the guest that calls himself "GuestDober"
sees.
As you can see there is two other persons logged in at the moment (called "robert" and "GuestNike").
The list that shows who are logged in is updated as quick as someone enters/leaves.
challenging
to get a game going you choose the person(s) you want to play with then click on the button [challenge].
Here GuestDober wants to challenge both robert and GuestNike so he selects them in the list and press [challenge]
It will look something like this.
Each of the challenged persons will now get a dialog which asks them if they want
to play with me (GuestDober that is in this example).
hiding
If you play several games at ones and dont want to be challenged for more games you can hide
yourself. This option desnt work for guests. What this means is that no one will se you
but messages (including game-moves) directed to you will get to you.
Information
When you want to check up a person you select him (or them) and click on [Info].
This will give you some information on the person in question like
- Real name of the person (if known)
- the ranking of the person (if known)
- the mailadress of the person in question
Messanging
If you want to talk to a person you select thoose you want to tell something and
click on [Message]. You will now get a window where you can type a message in a textarea
and it has two buttons
- [Send] - which will send the message to the persons involved and close the window.
- [Cancel] - which will close the window without sending anything.
Server information
This buttons sends out a request to the server about some information.
this information includes
- startdate and time of server
- current date and time of server
- how many people are currently logged in (note some of them may be hideing so you may not see them all)
- how many people that have logged in totaly during this time
- how many games that have been started (note the server wont count the games played with yourself).
Loging out
If you click on [logout] you will quit(surrender) all your game and say goodbye to the server.
Gameplay
When you have challenged a user and they have accepted your challange
you will get a new window that looks like this:
Here you can see several important things.
- The chessboard with all the pieces. To move a piece select it by clicking on it and then click on the new position.
(Note you are only allowd to move your own pieces)
- the movelist - this one shows all the moves made in the game (as this is a new game it is empty).
This is also where you reach the history. Simply double-click on a move and youll see a new window
that shows how the board looked at that move (more on this later)
- The SMS (Simple Message Service =) (located under the move-list).
- The SMS-textarea where you enter the message to send to the other person.
- A few labels telling you who is white, who is black and who it is were waiting for.
- The menu-bar
- file
- Quit - resign the game and accept defeat.
- Offer draw ask your opponent if he accepts a draw, before he can move hell have to answear
- options
- Flip board - if you play black and prefer the board to be rotated 180 degres choose this.
It will give you a board with h8 at lover left corner.
In the middle of a game
It can look something like this:
As we see here it is black's(mine in this game) turn to make a move.
We see here that black has selected the horse on f6 to move (the yellow mark).
History
If you want to look through how the game was played you can doubleclick
on a move in the movelist and you will see how the board looked after that move.
You will get a new window with a chessboard and a few buttons in it.
- [Start] warps you to the beginning of the game
- [Backward] warps you one move backward in history (if you can go back any more).
- [Forward] warps you one move forward in history (if there are more moves in the game).
- [End] warps you to the end of the game (or current position
- [Quit] closes the window and ends this history