Re: Chess under Fedora-23

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On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:48 AM, Martin Skjöldebrand <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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

Stockfish chess engine is also available for Linux.

 
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