On 08/03/16 09:05, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > > 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' > knights --help-all doesn't reveal anything to load a specific engine from the command line /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
