Slimemold

Hi, I occasionally work for the ICC, primarily as the BlitzIn programmer/consultant.

I'm responsible for ChessViewer (http://www.chessclub.com/chessviewer), CoffeeHouse, EasyChess, SJI, and a few other things

BlitzIn 2.34 is publicly released at www.chessclub.com/download. See http://www.chessclub.com/blitzin2help/version.txt for technical details of BlitzIn 2 improvements.

Blitzin 2.31 has somewhat smoother animated moves than version 2.30. Use the Options->Board menu to adjust (or disable) the animation. B2.30+ also includes support for Giveaway Chess, wild 26, and is necessary for running trusted plugins.

B2.28+ has a cool new events window that lets you join an ongoing event with the click of a button! Also great just to keep informed as to what's going on. Also new: wild games are referred to by name (instead of number) in the seek and match dialogs. And as always, there are minor improvements.

Q: Must I uninstall previous versions of BlitzIn? A: No, BlitzIn 2.x will overwrite previous copies of itself while retaining your settings, unless you install to a different directory. BlitzIn 2.x is completely independent of BlitzIn 1.x

Q: How can I make the board bigger? A: Options->Advanced->Disable board console (or drag the divider lower), Options->Board->Draw Coordinates, Window->StatusBar and Window->Toolbar.

Q: What's "No Clobber"/"Don't Re-use" in a game list window? A: Prevents the window from being "recycled" on a second game-listing command

Q: What are Plugins? See "help plugins". Try out SpeakMove, which enhances Blitzin with voice synthesis of moves, tells, and/or kibitzes!