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Thief is a free Windows chess client to play on chess servers like FICS

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Thief is a free chess client to play on chess servers like FICS: http://www.freechess.org It supports regular chess and all variants played. It is the best client for playing Bughouse, a special team-chess game (for more info see http://www.bughouse .)

Welcome to Thief!

Thief is a free chess client written by Zon Jan to play on chess servers like the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS). Thief can be customized and supports regular chess and all variants like bughouse, crazyhouse, Losers, Suicide, Kriegspiel and others. It is the the preferred client of Bughouse Players. Bughouse is a special team-chess game (for more information on Bughouse see http://www.bughouse.net ).

Thief works in Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 and also in WINE.

The latest release is Thief 1.25 from May 10, 2011.
New features and changes added to Thief include:

    New Layout for "Window -> Try Window layout": "Observe eight games"
    no more disconnections because of illegal characters sent to timeseal (proper ASCII filter)
    minimize to tray
    easier multiple command option for partner communication buttons
    password prompt option for registered accounts (if password is not saved in the profile)
    Bughouse Clocks can show which teams are up/down on time ("Preferences -> Game Configuration -> Clock Display -> Colored Bughouse Clocks"), colors are configurable in "Preferences -> Game Configuration -> Board Appearance"
    Fully configurable Silence Mode ("Preferences -> Customize Silence Command")
    Optional time display in console and/or log files: "Preferences -> Telnet Console Options" (Show time in Console/Show time in Console log)

    Bugfixes
    Win NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 conformity: Folder BUGSTUFF and all folders/files requiring write access are now located in subfolder THIEF of user document folder.

http://thief.sourceforge.net/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/thief/files/latest/download

https://sourceforge.net/projects/thief/

 

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