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Does someone have a list or a link to linux compatible engines? I remember Crafty, Yace, Comet, Fruit, Djinn, Ruffian, Butcher, GreKo, AICE and some more what can be found at Leo's news page. But possibly I have overseen something.

Regards

Volker

Hi Volker

In the Leo's page http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/Linux_Engines.html

AICE, Amy, BabyChess, Bace, Belofte, Beowulf, Chispa, Colchess, Comet, Crafty, DeepSjeng, Djinn, DrunkenMaster, Enigma, Fruit, Gaviota, Glaurung, Gnuchess, Gnuchess5, Gothmog, Hoichess, Homer, Jonny, Kace, Kiwi, Matheus, Natwarlal, Olithink, Pepito, Phalanx, Ruffian, Scorpio, Shredder, Sjeng, SmallPotato, Witz, Yace.

Federico

Also Butcher, Greko and Arasan

Thank you! I'm possibly blind not to find it myself.

Volker

The Baron is one ...
Richard.

Some match of engines in Linux?
I am preparing the version of Alfil in Linux and soon I will have it finished.
Do you know someone?
Thanks
www.alfilchess.com

Enrique S?nchez wrote:Some match of engines in Linux?

Yes, I have installed Ubuntu here recently and I must say I'm impressed (http://www.ubuntu.com). Installing the engines is an adventures of its own for each one .

Enrique S?nchez wrote:I am preparing the version of Alfil in Linux and soon I will have it finished. ...

Maybe I play a little tounament when I'm finished. Don't expect to much. It will be blitz. But another participant under active development would be great of course.

Regards

Volker

Probably, almost every engine with source code can be compiled as an Xboard engine unless there is an unguarded:
#include <windows.h>
in which case you can probably fix most of those by
#include <unistd.h>

Of course, there will still be a few with Windows API calls or something.

BabyChess is a Linux ONLY engine.
You have to have a lot of packages installed to build it.

Dann Corbit wrote:Probably, almost every engine with source code can be compiled as an Xboard engine unless there is an unguarded:
#include <windows.h>
in which case you can probably fix most of those by
#include <unistd.h>...

I'll give that a try later.

Dann Corbit wrote:BabyChess is a Linux ONLY engine.
You have to have a lot of packages installed to build it.

Yes it misses gtk+-2.0 packages here. I'll look for that later. I build xboard, scid, crafty, fruit and polyglot meanwhile. Baron, and butcher run without problems, fruit is a bit stubborn. However, the basics for playing chess are working pretty well. I suppose scid to be faster on linux.

But I'm going to make on step after the other. Holger Ruckd?schel's tournament manager seems to be interesting. Also it seems to be interesting to try to implement Alessandro's additional Winboard features to Xboard (I don't claim that I can do yet).

But immediately I'll look for/write some shell scripts to make it easier to use Xboards. To type

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xboard -size bulky -autoflag -xponder -highlight -drag -exit -popup -thinking -coords -xbuttons -tc 3 -inc 3 -sgf ~/schach/xboard/games.pgn -fcp ./crafty -fd ~/chess/crafty -scp ./baron -scd ~/chess/baron -mg 2

is working fine, but I guess there must be a more elegant way to start an engine match.

Volker

Slibo is another linux only engine:

http://slibo.sourceforge.net/

A few years ago, I was able to compile at least the engine. But I don't remember if I was able to get the GUI to work.

Michael

Michael Yee wrote:Slibo is another linux only engine:

http://slibo.sourceforge.net/
...

And additionally it is

Designed to be usable as a replacement for the xboard chess interface, it has much more functionality, and, on the other hand, is easy to use. Slibo can be used with common chess engines like crafty or gnuchess, but it provides its own chess engine too.

It looks promosing. I'll try to build it later this day. Thank you for the hint.

Volker

It looked promising. However, after insalling hundrets of packages I still got compiler errors. Knights was amoung the packages and I give it a try too.

I was not able to finish an engine-engine match correctly. Of course it is possible that the bug was sitting at the keyboard. But it is my impression that it is better to stay with the stable stuff at least for a while.

If it is so necessary to replace xboard/winboard with giant applications with tons of features why not start with the basics? Why not reliable engine-engine matches first and add all the blinking twinkles after fundament has been done well?

My 2 cents

Volker