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Hello,

I found the source code of Chest 3.19 and successfully compiled it for my xubuntu PC. It is old. So is there something newer for Linux ? Maybe a UCI version instead of a command line one...

Thank you.

I suspect Stockfish would run on Linux. Unfortunately no featured Chess GUI exist for Linux AFAIK.

Canoike wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2019 7:29 pm Hello,

I found the source code of Chest 3.19 and successfully compiled it for my xubuntu PC. It is old. So is there something newer for Linux ? Maybe a UCI version instead of a command line one...

Thank you.

There's ChestUCI_V52 at https://fhub.jimdo.com/, but I believe the source code is private and only Windows executables are provided. I suppose you could try running it under Wine on Linux.

Look wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2019 8:26 pm I suspect Stockfish would run on Linux. Unfortunately no featured Chess GUI exist for Linux AFAIK.

xboard works very well on Linux, of course

mar wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2019 9:29 pm

Look wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2019 8:26 pm I suspect Stockfish would run on Linux. Unfortunately no featured Chess GUI exist for Linux AFAIK.

xboard works very well on Linux, of course

As does Cute Chess, as far as I can tell.

zullil wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2019 9:19 pm

Canoike wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2019 7:29 pm Hello,

I found the source code of Chest 3.19 and successfully compiled it for my xubuntu PC. It is old. So is there something newer for Linux ? Maybe a UCI version instead of a command line one...

Thank you.

There's ChestUCI_V52 at https://fhub.jimdo.com/, but I believe the source code is private and only Windows executables are provided. I suppose you could try running it under Wine on Linux.

Thanks zullil. I had already found this link you mention. Wine is evil As I have a multi boot PC, I largely prefer using linux to "feel the power" of my softwares. Well, I'll do with it.

Arena runs on Linux
Shredder GUI runs on Linux
I guess that there are a lot more besides those already mentioned

Dann Corbit wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2019 5:48 am Arena runs on Linux
Shredder GUI runs on Linux
I guess that there are a lot more besides those already mentioned

There could be many. But I tried Arena GUI in windows and it has some delay and other problems. Shredder GUI is old. And so on. What GUI I want on linux ? A GUI with many features like ChessBase GUI in windows with :

• Mega Database.

• Fast And responsive.

• Ability to install any UCI engine.

• Powerful game search.

• Annotated games.

• Opening books.

• Many types of board and pieces displayed.

• And so on.

Well, XBoard does most of that. Except the mega database; the database and game search functions would get a bit slow above 40k games. To handle larger databases there is SCID.

hgm wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2019 5:07 pm Well, XBoard does most of that. Except the mega database; the database and game search functions would get a bit slow above 40k games. To handle larger databases there is SCID.

As a training tool I would add :

• Advanced replay training. Like that featured in ChessBase 15 and even better.