2 Nov
2023
2 Nov
'23
4:03 p.m.
Interesting. Didn't work for me. I ran 2 ways: with ./ removed and cd to /usr/bin
which is where xboard and gnuchess live. Board displays, timer starts, nothing happens.
In one instance white moved it's knight and then nothing else happened. When I use
the command just above the one you used in the documentation, which should let me play
against the engine, the board appears and I can make a move as white and then nothing
happens.
Good to know that you could get it to work. What distro are you using? Maybe I should
get source and just build gnuchess and xboard. Also, I have room on a laptop to install
another distro, maybe Ubuntu, and see if that works better. I've been wondering about
Fedora. Among other things, I had install issues that I don't think I should have
had.
I'd be glad to show you how to play chess.
-Gary
On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 11:02:14PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
I just had gnuchess play itself on xboard.
```
./xboard -fcp './gnuchess -x' -fd . -scp './gnuchess -x' -sd .
-pieceImageDirectory 'svg' -matchMode T -tc 1
```
https://www.gnu.org/software/chess/manual/gnuchess.html
See
3.7 XBoard chess engine
Honestly, I don't know how to play chess. Perhaps next meeting you can
bring the old chess board?
On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 09:07:38PM -0700, Gary wrote:
Interesting idea. A lot of folks have tried and
their unanswered questions litter the Internet. It seem that the gnuchess -u flag
doesn't work. I think this is probably how it is run when being used as an engine and
explains why xboard has issues. It is unfortunate that there is no documentation.
Perhaps the right way to do it is to get the source and read it and build it better or at
least learn how to use it.
I might do that, but a less robust but perhaps functional solution could be obtained by
using xdotools and piping the output to a file and tailing that. While gnuchess will sort
of take input from a named pipe, it goes berserk if that pipe is empty, instead of
blocking and waiting. I could also wrap it in Java or perhaps C and use the native
interfaces, but I dont think that will actually work without a functioning -u flag on
gnuchess.
But for now, I have a nice old chess board that I bought in Mexico when I was a kid.
With that, and the gnuchess command line, I have a pretty nice experience. As long as I
remember to enter my move. When you get into the game, its easy to forget LOL. And, it
kicks my butt, the way it should be.
-Gary
On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 11:42:32AM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
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way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
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To unsubscribe send an email to lug-nuts-leave(a)bigbrie.com At the risk of going into the weeds, GUchess is a
text based command line program. It should really be used with a chess board so you can
keep track of the positions. xboard is supposed to be a graphical front end for GNUchess.
I think it is time to "go into the weeds and do a front end for that GNU
chess".
How about Java FX?
https://openjfx.io/
It should keep you busy for at least a week!
Brian
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make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
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The 1980 Turing award lecture
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