From: Bill Appelbe (bappelbe at domain iona.com)
Date: Wed 26 May 1999 - 13:23:08 IST
Joe Doyle & Sandra O'Keeffe wrote:
>
>
> Lastly for those Chess players among you, is there anyway of setting levels
> of strength for XBoard ? Great interface but plays to 2300 rating every
> game which is well of my league !
>
Hi Joe
The default engine for Xboard is GNU chess - I usually use Crafty
ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu:/pub/hyatt (stronger than GNU)
The only way to edit strength is to edit the time controls (eg 30
moves/sec)
I use the command line for that.
Below is a list of chess programs for Linux - available at
http://www.gambitsoft.com/komputer.htm (I am not sure if it is still
maintained)
This should offer more choice - usualy the lower on the list - the
weaker
the software.
Bill
LINUX Chess Programs version 6
Runs in Native linux
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Playing programs-
1) Crafty with Xboard ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu:/pub/hyatt
2) Phalanx with Xboard ftp://ftp.math.muni.cz/pub/math/people/Dobes/
3) KnightCap ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/KnightCap/
4) GnuChess ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/
5) ZZZZZZ - Unix ftp://caissa.onenet.net/pub/chess/Unix/
6) Olithink - http://www.phy.uni-bayreuth.de/~btp434/
7) Gromit - http://home.t-online.de/home/hobblefrank
8) SSEchess: provides a Linux binary on
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/slutzksn/chess.html
9) EXchess: The Source Code of EXChess compiles without problems under
Linux.
It is available from
http://www.astro.brandeis.edu/BRAG/people/dch/chess.html
Databases-
1) Batz- http://www.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/~blaurock/chess/
Email programs-
1) Cmail with Xboard
Utilities-
1) Extract ftp://ftp.cs.ukc.ac.uk/pub/djb/Extract
2) Popeye (solves chess
problems)http://www.leo.org/pub/rec/games/popeye/
Runs in Wine
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1)CB DEMO
2) Gromit
Runs in DOSEMU
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1)Fritz 1, 3
2)Genius 5
3)M-Chess 7.1, 8.0
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