On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:48 AM, Martin Skjöldebrand <mar...@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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