Author: Peter Berger
Date: 04:53:00 06/11/02
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On June 11, 2002 at 07:49:27, Andrew Williams wrote: >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 Possible, but as he is able to start it as standalone I suspect xboard runs under a different user on his computer. I'd suggest $ chmod 555 COMET-XB. Peter
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