Objectives : having a fun usage of features offered by Broadway on GTK+3.

There are many available online chess playing websites today. They generally allow players to challenge each other using their (ad-encumbered) proprietary interface.

Now, let's suppose you don't want to use such a site, but still allow your friends to easily join a chess play hosted on your computer. These friends could very well use Windows, Linux or Mac OS X ; a recent version of Firefox will be the only prerequisite.

You happen to run Windows (Linux Fedora commands to be found at the bottom of this post) ; so you'll install the Windows version of GNOME Chess (which I just built ;-) ) :

GNOME Chess 3.8.3 for 32-bit Windows

gnome-chess-3.8.3_(TARNYKO).exe (21.3 Mb)

Then, you'll run the web version of GNOME Chess :

Nothing on the screen yet... but if you happen to run Firefox and browse to http://127.0.0.1:8080 :

You're just accessing the game using your browser !
Finally, you only need to open port 8080 on your modem-router (method differs regarding the model) then get your public IP address obtainable via a dedicated website, formatted this way...

http://WW.XX.YY.ZZ:8080

... and give it to your friends, so they can get there with their Firefox.
Here we go !

PS1 : for technical reasons, playing against the computer is disabled.

PS2 : for technical reasons, 3D display is disabled. It could be patched very soon if I get my free time back. It won't be available in web mode, anyways.

PS3 : under Fedora 19, to obtain the same result :
yum install gnome-chess
export GDK_BACKEND=broadway
gnome-chess