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Macbeth - A beautiful FICS client

Screenshot

Supported Platforms

  • macos
  • Linux
  • Windows, potentially in the future

Supported FICS categories

  • Chess
  • Crazyhouse
  • Suicide
  • Losers
  • Atomic
  • Wild

see: http://www.freechess.org/Help/HelpFiles/category.html

(Bughouse will be supported in the future.)

Features

  • Auto-Save games
  • Pre-Moves
  • Multiple Piece Sets
  • Resume Pending games
  • Observing games

Shortcuts

All game types  
+ W Close Window
+ O Toggle promotion piece
Esc Drop dragged piece
Y Accept offer
N Decline offer
X Cancel last premove
Bughouse / Crazyhouse  
Q Queen
R Rook
K Knight
B Bishop
P Pawn

Building and Running Macbeth

macos

You'll need to run several commands in a terminal window. Copy and paste each command separately and press Enter (The commands start after >). Now let's get started, and open a terminal window.

> brew --version

If it says "command not found", goto https://brew.sh/ and follow the instructions there. When homebrew is installed run these commands:

> brew install git haskell-stack wxmac freealut

> git clone https://github.com/tgass/macbeth.git
> cd macbeth
> cd macbeth-macos

> ./bundle.sh
> open Macbeth.dmg

Linux (Ubuntu)

sudo apt-get install git haskell-stack libalut-dev libglu1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev mesa-common-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev lib32z1-dev libwxgtk-media3.0-dev

git clone https://github.com/tgass/macbeth.git
cd macbeth

stack setup
./env.sh stack build --extra-lib-dirs=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
stack exec Macbeth

Download

From time to time I upload a binary for a recent macos here: http://www.macbeth-ficsclient.com

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