I'm a step further with my crashing problem.

I've de-installed everything, left the plugins completely out and re-installed the game.

Now, what happens is this:

When I start the game, it seems that it wants to play a move. With the parchment—like background.

I deduce this from the fact that at one point I can suddenly see the mouse pointer - but only within a rectangle which has the size of a small video-window.

However, I can see nothing. All I can see is the overall parchment background and the mouse pointer - which is visible only within this ominous rectangle - but nothing happens.

I believe that this is the point whe the game crashes. And when I start the task manager, I indeed get a message - a dialog box - telling me about a crash.

So, the crashes perhaps weren't caused by the plugins - but by something else.

Has anyone a clue what I could do now ?