DoubleChessBoard

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DoubleChessBoard:View and Utils

This version including :

(1) Double Chess Board where You can setup any pos and make any moves, no rules checked
(You can save as BPGN or as XPGN).
(2) Complete Bughouse Double Chess Rules HelpFile in english and czech.
(3) Function able replay any Bpgn games (loaded from Ultimate Bughouse Database)
which has no problems with showing pieces droped before taked on second board. You can also view any PGN chess games, including coin chess variant.
Energy board feature allowing You to be close to bughouse masters thinking ...
(4) Repair function which is able to remove asynchronous error from .Bpgn games
(typically loaded from Ultimate Bughouse Database)
and save repaired .Bpgn file
in format valid for Fermy's BPGNView2 and Blackcomb's BugAssistant
(So You can create .DB file from repaired UBD games
and view it in BA similar way like in standart chess in ChessBase for example !).
(5) Few boards with different graphic - easy to user-customizable, size is calculated.
(6) Small chessboard graphics,
which can be used to simply make chess diagrams for WAP - mobile phone internet.
You can try it on http://bughousechess.wz.cz/Wap/
(7) Can check and remove duplicity from BPGN
(when adding after syntax check, seeking if in BPGN2 already exists)
(8) Can remove from BPGN games which include User-defined string like "game aborted"
or more general.
(9) Can remove from BPGN comments and annotations {C:...},{A:..}
(10) You can replay BPGN games and You can see also energy of pieces: Energy Board
(Colors You can also customize, just edit bmp file.)
(11)Export to Rich Text print format.
(12)Bughouse chess diagrams in Rich Text format, using CHESSBUG.TTF. This allows to make paper bughouse chess books.
(13)Diagrams automatization. This allows to make paper bughouse chess bulletins.
(14)Game Text flip sides
(15)Full creating of new game
(16)Setup of any position and starting playing from this position, Saving position as BPGN (that allowing it replaying it later in Fermy BPGNView2 for example).
Something more: UserbPiecesWCN1.zip, UserbPiecesWCN2.zip

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DoubleChessBoard:NetGame

Double chess board : NetGame is a multiplayer chess game that supports the bughouse realtime chess variant and of course also fast blitz chess. As bonus You can try play chess from nonstandard starting position :) Download it and try !


And here is actual version of NetGame. Its ideal try if You wish play blitz chess or bughouse chess on local network or internet. DCB:Netgame insist on virtual chess environment allowing to play chess on network or internet in environment which is as possible as chess over the real board, so allowing for example to make illegal move by letting king in check for example, what is blunder that making often internet chess players, the claiming of such illegal move also has to be make personally by opponent and not automacically by server, this support the ability of chessplayer to be able using official chess rules. This software supporting the role of arbiter by logging full and detailed info about game : every move, time per move, lag per move. The idea of this software is that it will be virtual chess environment as close to real chess as possible. Also very important is accent that this software support to be easy for arbiter to asist. So if You need some software to play with friends chess on internet similar way like in some real chess club, You are welcome to try this software allowing play chess like in Your chessclub. DCB:NetGame working like small club chess server on which can 4 chess players play chess and few others can observe the game and chat with all other, so Its also possible kibitz like chessplayers like do it in real chess club, the advantage of this software is that this allowing to have chessclub from chess players that are in different parts of world.
Supports logging full bughouse double chess game info as BPGN file with lags. Implemented feature bughouse double chess internet game LAG Compensator ! Now if You will play bughouse chess game when You have diagonally better time, You can sit and wait for partner's board moves and lag waves will not affect the game, will only slower the game like lags do it in standard internet chess.
Also is possible to play chess game from non classics starting position. Its very interresting !
You can also play of course only on one board and use this way NetGame for playing clasics chess blitz over internet or network easy.
Using DCBN software You can play also time controll known from digital clocks as Bronstein. Play bughouse or chess in such slower time controll allowing You more thinking and create very interresting chess games.

Now can server as (bughouse double) chess mini server for several peoples, 4 can play at any moment and other observe the games.
And here are last news : 1.00
Thin Server/Client version of DCBN. Completely rewrited graphic management, now You can select any pieces and any size. You can use BugStuff pieces bitmaps graphic which using Thief or BPGNView.
Added new training feature : Now You can play bughouse chess on single PC with 1-4 winboard (xboard) engines.
Added new feature that making DoubleChessBoard more close to chess over the real table: Players voices. Optional different voices of player, his partner, opponent, second opponent, observer or in general per name of logged player. Now You can listen all players voice similar way like if You playing over the real board. For example if will be logged in netgame Sandokanom, then are used \PlayersVoice\Sandokanom\*.WAV files ... But if You can You can use also voices from installed Thief (fics client), only simply select directory Thief\WAVE which contains voice WAV files, DCBN understand for example not only exactly "+P.WAV" but also Thief synonym "PGOOD.WAV".
Version 1.22 released, big improvements especially but not only in graphic. Now You can use any true type chess font as pieces with any user color for example. Try It!

DCB : playing on internet using this chess mini server

DCB : Training Bughouse On Single PC with up to 4 bughouse chess engines
How to easy create own opening library for better training with Sjeng-s (bughouse chess playing winboard engine) ?


See TheBugboard forum line for this software, there You can write any suggestions.

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If You wish make your own chess server and develop it, email author for buying the sources of DoubleChessBoard.

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