On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:35 AM, Olavi Halme <omhalme64@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Have you plans to publish official chess programs for e. Scid and > Stockfish? These programs are modern and efficient programs and have > published in many other Linux systems. But why not in Fedora? For those who don't know, since chess is such a well defined and universal game, basically all computer chess programs are divided into seperate UI and engine processes, communicating with a standard protocol. In fact, most engine developers don't bother writing GUIs at all, and vice versa, so you have to mix and match. There are two protocols in use, "Xboard/Winboard/Chess Engine Communication Protocol", which is basically just GNU Chess's text interface, which has been around a long time and is widely supported in the open source world, but is a bit hacky having not been designed to be a universal standard in the first place. Then there's UCI, a newer better protocol, which does not yet seem to be widely supported in the open source world. We don't seem to have anything supporting it in Fedora yet, however a Xboard/UCI adapter exists: http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/PolyGlot.html Stockfish is generally considered the strongest open source engine right now, and is a UCI engine, and Scid is an open source "chess database" that apparently also acts as an Xboard/UCI GUI. Getting Scid into the distribution is probably a good start. I'm completely terrible at chess, I'm lucky if I can beat GNU chess on gnome chess's easy setting (only look two moves ahead) so I have not had a burning desire to get any strong engines into the distribution... :) _______________________________________________ games mailing list games@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/games
