A beautiful FICS client
FICS is the acronym for Free Internet Chess Server. Run by volunteers FICS is
completely free. FICS can look back on a long and eventfull past. It started its service as early as 1995. Beside chess FICS
offers a variety of chess variations like Losers, Suicide, several 'wild' variations, Crazyhouse and Bughouse.
If you don't have an account you can always play with a guest login. But I recommend to register and create
an account. FICS will track your rating, you can stay in contact with other players and join tournaments.
You can register here.
When I bought my MacBook Air I was disappointed that my favourite FICS client
Babaschess would not run on OSX. So I decided to program my own
client, learning Haskell on the way.
Macbeth is a work in progress, but all the functionality that I wanted initially is implemented. Let me know if a feature is missing!
Macbeth will create a folder in your home directory: ~/Macbeth. All your games will be automatically stored
here.
If you tried Macbeth and like it, please write me an email! If you don't like it or your favourite feature
is missing or you encountered a bug, please write me as well! <tilmann@macbeth-ficsclient.com>
You can find the code on github.
I am indebted to Eric de Mund. He is so kind to offer chess piece sets in perfect quality under Creative Commons.
I rejoiced when I found them! So, the piece sets are the work of Eric De Mund, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.