chess frontends and engines

[sc0ttman]

Here are some chess engines, required to play any kind of chess.
(I just collected them in 1 place, and compiled a couple of updates)

I also attached some frontends, nice interfaces for playing chess.

One of these is cboard, which is a tiny, CLI frontend. It supports a number of chess engines, but I cannot get cboard to work!!

- I will update this main post with cboard details on making cboard work when I find out!

Mostly, these pets should work in most modern pups, but not 4.3 and earlier... (I think)

[sc0ttman]

To make cboard work with gnuchess, install both, then run this command in the terminal:

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mkdir -p /root/.cboard
echo "engine_cmd	gnuchess xboard" > /root/.cboard/config

(use SHIFT+INSERT to paste into the terminal)

You could also try

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engine_cmd	fairymax

but I cannot seem to make fairymax work with cboard - the computer player takes forever to make the 2nd move