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If you are really desperate to get a board on the screen and are happy with any (ugly) solution, you could try to follow the previous thread on DRebian and install instead of gimp both eboard and gnuchess. ( I run into a fatal error with xboard even though the board appears on the screen and looks quite nice). They will be installed in /usr/games which is not in the path. You can get the board up for instance by typing ./eboard from within /usr/games. Then you should choose "generic engine" to play against the appropriate version of gnuchess. Note that I still have problems moving the pieces around with the pen, they somehow won't stick. Anyway, this is how far I have come ...
But even if you get everything working in the end, it is a lot of stuff to install. For instance you must have usbnet working and be sure to have IP forwarding correctly set up. [On a MAC, this requires to tick "internet sharing" in Preferences, Sharing. ]
Of course this is a far cry from a direct port of just xboard and gnuchess with proper integration (separate tap) into Iņigo's DR800+ or Mackx's patch of the rc3 firmware, like e.g. dima_tr's port of xmahjongg.
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