Sunday, August 14, 2011

Raptor is a Great FICS Desktop Client for Mac

Free Internet Chess Server (FICS), which can be found at www.freechess.org, is a great way to play chess online for free. Besides being free, another great thing about FICS is the presence of a huge community, so that you'll always have someone within your playing level to start a game with. It is also highly moderated by system and human moderators so that trolls and cheaters are quickly identified and acted upon accordingly.

I used to connect to FICS via Winboard or BabasChess on my Windows machine. But now that I'm on a Mac (specifically on an Intel, Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Macbook Pro 13" Early 2011), these two programs don't just seem to work. Good thing I stumbled upon a comment from one user in the FICS group in Facebook about Raptor Chess.



So when I did install it, it was actually like BabasChess for Mac. So thanks to the developers of this program, now I can enjoy playing at FICS natively on my Mac.
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4 comments:

  1. Mac Desktop Client for FICS – ChessHiveAugust 14, 2011 at 12:48 PM

    [...] UPDATE: I actually already found a great FICS client for Mac: Raptor Chess. [...]

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  2. saad khajaMarch 5, 2012 at 12:36 AM

    how can I contact Raptor.
    chess board screen does not open

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  3. PalinurusOctober 9, 2012 at 1:26 AM

    Jin is well worth the download too! I highly recommend it. Unlike Raptor it allows for a full screen view - very immersive.

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  4. meteorrockJanuary 14, 2013 at 8:28 AM

    Yeah there needs to be a way for you to play offline with chess engines.

    How do you do that? Can you implement that feature for us?

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