WebChess

Welcome to WebChess, the easy way to play chess over the internet....

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Source

The full source to WebChess is now available here. Since I dont have time to develop this project further use it for what you want. Its totally free. If you use it feel free to mention that it came from me originally. Its a tar + gz file so to unpack it use

Unix:
gunzip wc.tgz
tar -xvf wc.tar
Windows:
use Winzip

Playing

If you want to try WebChess out log into it. If you have a chess-account use that one or you can try it for free use:
Username GuestMylittlename (that is Guest followed by something like your name or nick)
Password Guest

About

This little project Is made by me(robo) alone. The only good reason I can give is that I had to much spare time (well not actually) and wanted to play chess over the internet. I tried a few ones out, but didnt manage to find any good software that I liked, either it was complicated to set up and ugly to look at (like xboard) or it cost me money (like caissa-web, I did like part of it)

I did think I could do something better than what I had found. If only there was a way to make it available for free to the public. Soo what to do? This whas about the time when Java made an entrance to the scene. Java looked like a good thing to know so I decided I would make a chessgame in Java.

Since WebChess is written entirely in Java it should work on most plattforms that support Java. If this isnt true I will not be surprised, many of the bugs I found while making this game was due to buggy implementations of the JavaVirtualMachine (JVM). Both Netscape and Internet Explorer had several flaws in their JVM:s.

After a few moments of hacking and reading the rules (yes I was uncertain of some of them, not anymore) I had my first version out. This was playable but not what I wanted it to bee. For example you couldnt choose who you wanted to play, the server matched up ppl as soon as they got by.

A few more moments and a military service later I had version 2.0 out. This was more of what I wanted. This was a very stable version and this one is the one I have right now (with a few minor adjustments). Although quite good I realised I still missed a few things in this product (never satisfied am I).

Currently Im working with WebChess version 3.0 this is a total rewrite. This one will feature

Tournaments.
User configurable sound and colors.
Better chat possibility
True ELO-ranking.
Everything WebChess 2.x had

It will only be available in java 1.1+ format.