Mekk's programming notes http://blog.mekk.waw.pl Private blog by Marcin Kasperski. Notes about Linux, programming and internet chess. en Wed, 16 May 2012 23:20:50 GMT Blogofile hourly 1 Playing live chess online http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/4-Playing-live-chess-online.html Chess Playing> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:43:00 +0200 http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/4-Playing-live-chess-online.html I love chess. But, having small kids, I do not have enough time to play it on the board. So I play it on the net.

There are plenty of chess sites and I tried quite a lot of them. So ... here are some recommendations.

This article is about places where one plays real-time games, be they blitz, rapid, or slow-time.

Continue reading "Playing live chess online" » ]]> nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/4-Playing-live-chess-online.html#disqus_thread Using ECTool with SSL-enabled mail server http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/29-Using-ECTool-with-SSL-enabled-mail-server.html Chess Playing> Thu, 08 Dec 2005 21:31:00 +0100 http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/29-Using-ECTool-with-SSL-enabled-mail-server.html ECTool is very nice shareware application for the email-chess player. Worth mentioning that while it is Windows program, it works without any problems under Linux (using wine emulator).

Article below explains how to use ECTool with email server, which require SSL connection (not handled by ECTool itself).

Continue reading "Using ECTool with SSL-enabled mail server" » ]]> nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/29-Using-ECTool-with-SSL-enabled-mail-server.html#disqus_thread