Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 04:49:27 06/11/02
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On June 11, 2002 at 07:44:40, Steve Coladonato wrote: >On June 11, 2002 at 04:50:38, Alastair Scott wrote: > >>On June 10, 2002 at 19:16:08, Steve Coladonato wrote: >> >>>On June 10, 2002 at 12:41:27, Leo Dijksman wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>The Linux version of Comet can be downloaded at Frank's Chess Page: >>>> >>>>http://www.amateurschach.de/ >>>> >>>>Thanks to Uli! >>>> >>>>Leo. >>> >>>Is Comet B.46 compatible with SCID for doing analysis using the SCID analysis >>>window? >>> >>>Steve >> >>Difficult to tell until I do more testing. >> >>I note that, if you're playing through a game quickly (1 second per move or so) >>Comet sometimes doesn't keep pace and first gets out of sync with the position >>on the board then becomes completely confused, seemingly reverting to move 1. >>The cure is to close and reopen the analysis window. >> >>Alastair > > >I downloaded the zip file from Frank's site and unzipped it in a directory >called /usr/local/chess/Comet-B46. The executable file from the zip is >COMET-XB. I then tried to run it with xboard using "xboard -fcp COMET-XB -fd >/usr/local/chess/Comet-B46" and got the xboard error "Failed to start first >chess program COMET-XB..." When I run COMET-XB standalone, it starts but I have >no idea what the commands to play a game are. > >Steve You need to make COMET-XB into an executable file. Type in: chmod +x COMET-XB at the shell prompt and then press enter. I'm sure that you'd be able to do this with one of the file managers instead if you prefer to. You only need to do it once, not every time you run comet. Andrew
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