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Date: 13 Dec 2005 07:37:56
From: Alexander Wagner
Subject: Re: Linux Chess Programs
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On 2005-12-12, BEM <brady.maxwell@gmail.com > wrote:
Hi!
> I recently took an interest in Computer Chess Games. I
> Bought Chess Master 10 for my PC running windows at home
> but my work machine and traveling computer runs Ubuntu
> Linux. I have GNU Chess installed but it lacks many of the
> features I want from a chess program. Can anyone tell me
> if there is a good comercial Chess product that will run
> on Linux?
Well a good engine would be crafty. Additionally you may
find a strong engine in Fruit (either the free or the
commercial version). To use Fruit actually with any of the
currently available guis you most likeley need Polyglot.
Also you might want to consider getting scid for a database.
As a gui I still prefer xboard, but if you find it's design
to ancient (a collegue here does) knights or eboard are
options, and you should certainly also check out Jose. It's
currently not as strong as a database as scid but it's a
really nice gui resemling Fritz quite a bit.
Additionally to xboard I use my own little gui tool called
Scotty which just saves me to key in the parameter lists for
xboard which can get a bit long ;)
Note that we are still in the GPL/Free area here. ;)
If you are searching for a strong commercial engine get
Shredder. It also has a nice gui but this is still lacking
some features compared to Shredders Windows-GUI, but it's
improving and it is a very good program.
To save you finding all the pointers yourself have a look at
http://theorie.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~arwagner/chess/
and for some hints on Shredder you might want to check out
http://theorie.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~arwagner/chess/shredder.html
Last but not least you have the option of running Fritz
(from ChessBase) using Wine on Linux. At least Fritz8 (which
you can get today a few dollars/euros) runns very nicely
with Wine. The page on how to set this up is still in
preparation though, but I'll add a pointer to it once I
finished writing up the stuff. Give me some days, worst case
the next weekend ;) It's not difficult though, only some
minor issues.
But I must say that I'm very happy indeed using real Linux
software. The Fritz-Setup is just to have the ability to
read ChessBase Files. (BTW: also Arena works well in wine,
I'll add a short howto to the Fritz-page as well, it's
almost the same way to go. I checked it out as it is a
pretty popular free DOS9x-gui.)
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Kind regards,
Alexander Wagner
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