Raptor is a cross platform chess interface and pgn viewer for the free internet chess server: FICS. It has the following features:
Games tab with a settings and table view, Seek Tab with a settings, table, and graph view, Bugwho tab with adjustable settings for partners,teams, and games, Speech support for moves and tells, UCI/winboard chess engine support, Game statistics that show up after you finish a game, Mouse wheel over a chess board to go forward/backward moves, Opening/ECO code is displayed as you play/observe a game, A PGN viewer that supports all variants on fics and bics, Client side legal move validation for all variants on fics and bics, King auto promote button on toolbar for suicide. You can also see captured kings in the piece jail, PGN export in the ficsgames.com format, Navigation arrows to go back to previous moves, Fade away arrows and higlights, Traversable move list, Configurable mouse button actions i.e. smartmove, random move, random capture, random recapture, Premove, Queued Premove, and SmartMove, Crosshairs cursor mode, Winners toolbar button to automatically match the winner of a game, Jin chess set support.
Comments and Reviews
While trying to install Jin, the installer put up a message that said it would work best with a specific version of Java, and was nice enough to include a link to download it from, so I went ahead and installed that version as requested, and just as I was getting ready to run Jin for the first time, I had a Thought:
"Wait a minute. Let me see if this will make Raptor work again first."
I started Raptor, and instead of complaining about how it needed me to install Java again, it logged me into FICS ... so all is not lost with Raptor (thank goodness)!
I used this one for about a year under Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6.8), then one of the programs I rely on needed to run under 10.10, so I upgraded my OS ... and now Raptor no longer works. No updates since last year.
Too bad ... since the death of Fixation, this one was my "go-to" chess client.