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...Install it on your (even old old old) laptop and you can have a chess clock everywhere in every moment. Under Linux only it can run in a xterm, but you get best visual effect when running in a virtual terminal or on the console and not under X. Merging chessoclock and a Minix 2.0.4 root disk gives us chessoflop. Use chessoflop to turn your twenty years old 80286 into a chess clock without installing anything. Reverse the image on a floppy, put that disk on your old computer, turn it on and that’s all! ...

...Each round begins with as many lives as balls: 2 for Round 1, 3 for Round 2, and so on up to Round 15 (which no living mortal has yet reached). The goal for each round is to enclose and fill 75% of the board. Press F1 for a help message that describes the scoring formula and the effect of mouse clicks. When a game is running and the mouse pointer is within the playable area, a right-click switches between building a horizontal and vertical wall (the cursor shows which one); a left-click starts a wall building there, so long as no ball occupies that tile.

By arranging an array of hall effect sensors under the fields of a chess board, the position of the pieces can be tracked.