5 Mar
2016
5 Mar
'16
11:19 a.m.
Richard Ibbotson wrote:
I have installed knights and xboard. But how do you use them with gnuchess ?
Like GUI based software that has been around since the 90's a menu appears when you start it. In the case of Knights you'll see a panel called “new game”. It asks you to select a computer engine. You can also configure an engine in the panel.
Thank you. So one has to start knights, and then choose gnuchess as "computer engine". This strikes me as slightly weird. And what is the option "gnuchess --xboard" meant to do? (It does nothing.) I would have thought an option "gnuchess --knights" (or else a config file .gnuchess where you can specify "knights") would be the rational way to start gnuchess using the knights board.
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Timothy Murphy
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School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin