I finally got around to updating my chess related greasemonkey scripts for Firefox 4.

The scripts convert the main playing boards to practice boards with unlimited moves, undo and reset. Castling works as well, just promotions need some more work.

The scripts can be found over on userscripts.org.

Having just read the (very) last post on Joel on Software I decided to follow Joels advice to talk about more than just my *product*. I do that occasionally anyway and every time I am surprised how many hits posts unrelated to ZenMagick (but related to programming) actually get.

But today to something completely different: Chess. If you’ve browsed this site you might have found to Greasemonkey scripts that I’ve written that implement some sort of a practice board for online correspondence chess. I do play Correspondence Chess on two sites: chessworld.net and atlanticgames.net.

When I started, both sites where about even with features, perhaps with a slight advantage to chessworld.net. Now things have evolved a bit and chessworld.net is clearly richer in both game quality (ie. stronger opponents) and features. [Not that I need particularly strong opponents!]

One of my favourite thing, though, is to watch KingsCrusher, the guy running chessworld.net, play and comment! 5 minute chess.

If you don’t know what 5 minute Chess is, it’s Chess with a clock where each player has 5 minutes for all his moves. Together with his mostly insightful comments, watching KingsCrusher play International and even Grand Masters is a lot of fun, so if you want to improve your blitz and bullet chess, you should really try this.