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Originally Posted by lostgirl815

Can you mention the 'different Chess mod' URL here, or is that forbidden? (No offense to whoever wrote the Mod on this thread, but I'm not planning to upgrade to 4.0 anytime soon.)

No, it is certainly not forbidden

The other mod here with Chess is in the Gameroom.

However, that Chess mod is "not perfect" either, and our users have also commented negatively on that one. To be fair to Carnage and his mod, there are advantages and disadvantages of each, but neither actually "works" (is enjoyable to play) for our users.

In the other mod, legal moves are enforced, but you must hack the PHP code so people can actually play over a long period of time. Also, in the Gameroom chess program, you cannot observe a game being played by two other players. In addition, the Gameroom version has a clunky flash interface, so you have a waste a lot of time to go find your game (after you hack it, so you can actually play when you have time...) , and in the default (not hacked) version, if you leave the flash interface, your game is gone! Because of this, basic features like "it is your move" notifications to the forum are missing.

Our experience is that neither of the available vB.org chess mods are "keepers" for "real chess players", and this not my opinion, it is the opinion of our users who want to play chess when they have time, and want a robust, normal, rule-enforcing, observable, playable Chess feature.

The bottom line is that our users want a good Chess mod for vB. I am willing to pay for a decent one (if it really works well), but so far, we can't find any joy for our users even with any of the vB mods (two free, and the paid version of one of the free ones!)

I had to hack the code to make the Gameroom version playable, and even then, our users complained because it simply does not "answer the mail" for a great vB chess program/mod.