Chess under Fedora-23

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:48 AM, Martin Skjöldebrand <martin at skjoldebrand.eu
> 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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