I rewrote the board view widget to get rid of the dependency on GnomeCanvas, now it only uses GtkDrawingArea and Cairo. In the process I “cleaned up” the animation code by making it automatically figure out all required animations between two positions and added piece fading and (optional) coordinates for good measure. Here is a little screencast showing it in action, of course being a gif it is not of high quality:

September 14, 2006 at 1:43 pm
It looks great at last somebody start to new and goodlooking interface for Linux.
I am not developer, but I like to play chess. If you are looking for ideas, I can tell you how I imagin such kind of interface for me.
Regards!
January 3, 2007 at 1:43 am
Wow.
It would be nice to see something like this evolve into a Free Software equivalent of BabasChess for FICS.
Any chance?
March 26, 2007 at 3:02 pm
nice job, im suggest one, support do Network Games, like p2p games, what do u mind!?