Jin

Jul 20, 2023

Graphical client for chess servers

Jin is an open source, cross platform, graphical client interface for chess servers. It currently supports these servers

* The Internet Chess Club aka ICC
* The Free Internet Chess Server aka FICS

A short list of Jin’s main features

* Graphical chess board with many board patterns and piece sets
  to choose from. You can also create your own
* Chat/Command console with customizable color-coding for
  different types of chat/text
* A seek graph, showing the currently sought games in a visual manner
* Flexible game logger, which saves your finished games to your
  hard disk doesn't work in JinApplet
* A scripter, which allows you to define automatic responses
  to certain events
* A list of common actions, which can be quickly executed
  at the press of a button


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