I recently updated the OS on my machine to CentOS7, which unfortunately only provides a 64-bit version of wine. Which means I can no longer run Arena Chess GUI under wine.
I've looked around for "good" chess GUIs for linux in the past and came up short. The most important criteria to me is the ability to plug in UCI chess engines, run engine matches, EPD tests, and engine tournaments.
Anyone know of a good alternative to Arena that meets the criteria above? Or better yet, anyone know where I can get a 64-bit build of Arena?
Thanks,
Z
Linux Chess GUI that's good for engine matches/tournaments
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Re: Linux Chess GUI that's good for engine matches/tournamen
XBoard, of course.
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Re: Linux Chess GUI that's good for engine matches/tournamen
I think recent XBoard has all the features you want; otherwise it just lacks the EPD test suite support.
As far as I know though, 64 bit Wine allows you to run 32 bit Winows binaries. Have you tried it? If it indeed doesn't, there should be a "wine32" package in the package manager.
As far as I know though, 64 bit Wine allows you to run 32 bit Winows binaries. Have you tried it? If it indeed doesn't, there should be a "wine32" package in the package manager.
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XBoard 4.9 does EPD test suites. (See http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/what ... tml#tag-A5 .)
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Re: Linux Chess GUI that's good for engine matches/tournamen
I do not run CentOS 7, but I do run a 64-bit version of wine and I can run Arena just fine. I cannot remember (it's been so long ago) if there were any specific things I had to do to run Arena under a 64-bit wine, but it does work. If you want me to dig further into this on my machine to see what was needed, I can do so for you, just let me know.zd3nik wrote:I recently updated the OS on my machine to CentOS7, which unfortunately only provides a 64-bit version of wine. Which means I can no longer run Arena Chess GUI under wine.
I've looked around for "good" chess GUIs for linux in the past and came up short. The most important criteria to me is the ability to plug in UCI chess engines, run engine matches, EPD tests, and engine tournaments.
Anyone know of a good alternative to Arena that meets the criteria above? Or better yet, anyone know where I can get a 64-bit build of Arena?
Thanks,
Z
I run Linux Mint 17.3 (64-bit).
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Re: Linux Chess GUI that's good for engine matches/tournamen
Under Mint Linux 64 bit, no problem with Arena or even Fritz 13.
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Re: Linux Chess GUI that's good for engine matches/tournamen
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Re: Linux Chess GUI that's good for engine matches/tournamen
Not a GUI, as far as I know...
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But 4.8 does not. The new version may not yet be available through his package manager (but it can be installed by hand, of course).hgm wrote:XBoard 4.9 does EPD test suites. (See http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/what ... tml#tag-A5 .)
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Re: Linux Chess GUI that's good for engine matches/tournamen
For an engine author installing a program from source can hardly be a problem.