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Chat Layout `board design - original`
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Board Console on Side and new look for ToolBar 
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Get a Chess Game `board design - original` 
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Chess Board `board design - modern`
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Activities Window With Seeks and Events List
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Engine Analysis `board design - modern`
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Some Lantern Chess Interface features are: open pgn, it logs the users games to a pgn file, UCI engine analysis supported when in examine mode on ICC and also observing game mode on ICC ( not when playing), customize look and feel of chat consoles in the console menu on chat console. A lot of work has also been put into the Chess Board in Lantern. Choice of board design modern, original, and mixed in game menu / board design. Can have no board console, a console under the board or a console on the left side of the board.
Lantern Chess can support both BlitzIn multi console and Dasher tabs. You customize the tabs channels yourself like BlitzIn customize chat console. Window menu/ New Chat Console if you want multiple consoles to view the 12 tabs.
The user can set a font by tab and font size, can have a different background color on different tabs, can specify a tell console. supports all wilds on ICC, including crazyhouse, bughouse kriegspiel and shatranj. has a board console and in examine mode a piece pallet for setting up chess positions on chessclub.
In Lantern you can type text and instead of hitting enter to send it to ICC, type ctrl + g and it will open the browser like a link click does, but to the google page loaded with the search of those words typed.
Lantern supports private notify lists essentially. Get notified on the tab a channel is on when a person enters or leaves channel, which always happens on logon and logoff. use connect notify to notify a person on all shared channels. This feature can be usd to track channel regulars on ICC or even your favorite Grandmasters on ChessClub.com without them having to be informed.
Lantern Chess is a GPL program. Unzip the same jar file you click to start lantern to get at Source Code and License.
Linux Sound fixed as of Lantern472. On Linux, Lantern will now use the Jin sound package. This is an LGPL package, at free/util/audio, by Alexander Maryanovsky.
Questions, Comments, Suggestions, Bug Reports: message LanternBugs on ICC or email LanternBugs at gmail.
Lantern Chess can be used for a free trial on ICC. See Validating with PayPal
Why Lantern Doesn't Work With Older 32 Bit Macs
On a more personal note, i'm a two time ESPN ICC Group College Football Bowl Mania winner, but I did not watch the superbowl. But boy were people screaming when it ended. This is my favorite: "it's very unfair but in stile of that cheap new york creep - manning! What a worm"