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Jin

Jin is an open source, cross platform, graphical client for chess servers, written in Java. Created by Alexander Maryanovsky

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Jin is an open source, cross platform, graphical client for chess servers, written in Java. Jin can run either as a standalone application (available at this website) or as an applet, directly from your browser (available at the chess server's website).

Currently supported servers are the Internet Chess Club and the Free Internet Chess Server. Officially supported platforms are Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, although Jin should work on any operating system with a modern Java Runtime Environment (1.4 or later). More Info »

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Jin was added by Reprotected in Oct 2010 and the latest update was made in Nov 2014. The list of alternatives was updated Jun 2020. It's possible to update the information on Jin or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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