<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:48 AM, Martin Skjöldebrand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin@skjoldebrand.eu" target="_blank">martin@skjoldebrand.eu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
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On 08/03/16 09:05, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:<br>
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> On 07/03/16 16:05, Timothy Murphy wrote:<br>
>> Tim wrote:<br>
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>>> Allegedly, on or about 06 March 2016, Timothy Murphy sent:<br>
>>>> I have gnuchess, knights and xboard installed.<br>
>>>> As I said, adding the --xboards option to gnuchess has no effect.<br>
>>> "xboard" vs "--xboards"<br>
>>><br>
>>> Have you checked for simple typing and syntax errors?<br>
>> I'm not sure what you mean.<br>
>> According to "gnuchess -h" there is an option<br>
>> -x, --xboard start in engine mode<br>
> I had to try this as I am a national master class player, but haven't<br>
> used gnuchess nor xboard for anything for ages. As I read it the -x<br>
> switch description it means that -x formats gnuchess out/input for use<br>
> with xboard, but doesn't necessarily start xboard.<br>
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> Indeed<br>
> <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/chess/manual/html_node/XBoard-chess-engine.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.gnu.org/software/chess/manual/html_node/XBoard-chess-engine.html</a><br>
> indicates the correct incantation to start xboard with gnuchess as the<br>
> backend, namely<br>
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> xboard -fcp 'gnuchess --xboard'<br>
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</span>knights --help-all doesn't reveal anything to load a specific engine<br>
from the command line<br>
<div class=""><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div>Stockfish chess engine is also available for Linux.<br><br> </div></div></div></div>