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