On 07/03/16 16:05, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Tim wrote: > >> Allegedly, on or about 06 March 2016, Timothy Murphy sent: >>> I have gnuchess, knights and xboard installed. >>> As I said, adding the --xboards option to gnuchess has no effect. >> "xboard" vs "--xboards" >> >> Have you checked for simple typing and syntax errors? > I'm not sure what you mean. > According to "gnuchess -h" there is an option > -x, --xboard start in engine mode I had to try this as I am a national master class player, but haven't used gnuchess nor xboard for anything for ages. As I read it the -x switch description it means that -x formats gnuchess out/input for use with xboard, but doesn't necessarily start xboard. Indeed https://www.gnu.org/software/chess/manual/html_node/XBoard-chess-engine.html indicates the correct incantation to start xboard with gnuchess as the backend, namely xboard -fcp 'gnuchess --xboard' /Martin S -- This address is for technical mail lists only. For all other matters, please use my main address at the .org domain. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
