Macbeth - A beautiful FICS client

Screenshot

Supported Platforms

macos
Linux
Windows, potentially in the future

Supported FICS categories

Chess
Crazyhouse
Suicide
Losers
Atomic
Wild

see: http://www.freechess.org/Help/HelpFiles/category.html

(Bughouse will be supported in the future.)

Features

Auto-Save games
Pre-Moves
Multiple Piece Sets
Resume Pending games
Observing games

Shortcuts

| All game types | |------------------------------------|----------------------- | <kbd>⌘</kbd> + <kbd>W</kbd> | Close Window | <kbd>⌘</kbd> + <kbd>O</kbd> | Toggle promotion piece | <kbd>Esc</kbd> | Drop dragged piece | <kbd>Y</kbd> | Accept offer | <kbd>N</kbd> | Decline offer | <kbd>X</kbd> | Cancel last premove

| Bughouse / Crazyhouse | |--------------|------------- | <kbd>Q</kbd> | Queen | <kbd>R</kbd> | Rook | <kbd>K</kbd> | Knight | <kbd>B</kbd> | Bishop | <kbd>P</kbd> | Pawn

Building and Running Macbeth

macos

You'll need to run several commands in a terminal window. Copy and paste each command separately and press Enter (The commands start after >). Now let's get started, and open a terminal window.

> brew --version

If it says "command not found", goto https://brew.sh/ and follow the instructions there. When homebrew is installed run these commands:

> brew install git haskell-stack wxmac freealut

> git clone https://github.com/tgass/macbeth.git
> cd macbeth
> cd macbeth-macos

> ./bundle.sh
> open Macbeth.dmg

Linux (Ubuntu)

sudo apt-get install git haskell-stack libalut-dev libglu1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev mesa-common-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev lib32z1-dev libwxgtk-media3.0-dev

git clone https://github.com/tgass/macbeth.git
cd macbeth

stack setup
./env.sh stack build --extra-lib-dirs=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
stack exec Macbeth

Download

From time to time I upload a binary for a recent macos here: http://www.macbeth-ficsclient.com

Copyrights

The piece sets you find in /resources are taken form http://ixian.com/chess/jin-piece-sets/. They are the work of Eric De Mund, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
The chess board background tiles that I provide are taken from Tim Mann's XBoard/ WinBoard: http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard.html
The icons used are taken from https://icons8.com/. They are beautiful!

Macbeth

Install / Use

README