Playing GNOME Chess

2.1. Glavni prozor igre

Starting GNOME Chess displays the main game window as shown below. The game is played by moving chess pieces using the mouse. Each player alternates to move a piece in the appropriate colour, from one board position to another valid board position. The main game window is organized in three main areas: In the top menu and toolbar area, most common game actions can be made. The chess board is in the middle of the window, where the game is played by moving chess pieces using the mouse. Finally, the game history panel is shown at the bottom, where information about the game history, the remaining move time and buttons for showing previous or next moves are available.

Figure 1Main window in GNOME Chess

2.2. Pokretanje nove igre

Da biste pokrenuli novu igru, pritisnite dugme Nova igra iz trake alata. Prikazaće se prozorče za novu igru na kome se nova igra može podesiti željenim opcijama. U odeljku za postavke igre se određuje ime igre i vreme za potez svakog igrača. U odeljku igrači je moguće postaviti broj ljudskih i računarskih igrača. Ako ste instalirali bilo koji podržani šahovski motor, on će biti prikazan u spisku dostupnih igrača. Konačno, podešavanja težine računarskih igrača je moguće postaviti u odeljku težina.

Figure 2Prozorče za pokretanje nove igre

2.3. Meniji

Traka menija, koja se nalazi na vrhu Glavnog prozora, sadrži sledeće menije:

Game

This menu contains:

  • New ( Ctrl+N ) This starts a new game of Chess.
  • Open ( Ctrl+O ) Loads a previously saved game.
  • Save ( Ctrl+S ) Saves the current game of chess.
  • Save As Saves the current game of chess with a new filename.
  • Network Game ( Ctrl+L ) This starts a network multiplayer game using GGZ Gaming Zone.
  • Resign To concede loss of the game, so that the opponent wins the game.
  • Claim Draw If a claimed draw is accepted, the game ends without victory for either player.
  • Quit ( Ctrl+Q ) Ends the game.

View

This menu contains:

  • Fullscreen ( F11 ) Shows the game window in fullscreen mode.
  • 3D Chess View Enables 3D chess view mode using OpenGL. This requires Python OpenGL and Python GTKGLExt installed, in addition to a 3D graphics card setup properly. Please contact your system administrator if you have problems, either way you will always be able to play chess in 2D mode.
  • Show Logs Show logs for debugging GNOME Chess and the active chess AI engines.

Settings

This menu contains:

Help

This menu contains:

  • Contents ( F1 ) Display this manual.

    About This opens the About dialog which shows basic information about GNOME Chess, such as the author's name, the version number of the game.