Linux Chess GUI that's good for engine matches/tournaments

[zd3nik]

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

[hgm]

XBoard, of course.

[Evert]

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.

[hgm]

XBoard 4.9 does EPD test suites. (See http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/what ... tml#tag-A5 .)

[royb]

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 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.

I run Linux Mint 17.3 (64-bit).

[menniepals]

Under Mint Linux 64 bit, no problem with Arena or even Fritz 13.

[Daniel Mehrmann]

cutechess-cli

Regards
Daniel

[hgm]

Not a GUI, as far as I know...

[Evert]

XBoard 4.9 does EPD test suites. (See http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/what ... tml#tag-A5 .)

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]

For an engine author installing a program from source can hardly be a problem.