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MachineOfTheMonth: Playing chess over the internet

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 8, 2000

[ Thanks to Glenn
Mullikin
for this link. ]

“Back when I never had heard of Linux, I used the
Microsoft_Internet_Gaming_Zone to play. Once I started using Linux,
I used Yahoo’s game services, which required the use of a java
enabled web browser so I used Netscape Navigator. All these
services were free of charge and I enjoyed them immensely.”

“However, then I started focusing more on free software and
wanting everything on the system to be under a free software
license. I didn’t think anything was available but boy was I
wrong.”

In this article, we will take a look at freechess.org and
services that can provide similiar things. And we will talk about
what the software setup you will need is if you want to use those
services under Debian GNU/Linux.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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