Author: Roy Brunjes
Date: 18:13:19 12/08/04
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On December 08, 2004 at 20:39:39, MJG wrote: >Wow. that almost worked. I thought you were talking about completely different >software, but I typed what you posted and my Gnu chess board appeared for a >second, saying: > >Warning: Cannot convert string "X" to type Int >xboard: Failed to start first chess program phalanx on localhost: phalanx: No >such file or directory > > >and then disappeared. Do you know what these messages mean? The string "-fcp phalanx" tells xboard to use the engine named phalanx as the First Chess Program (FCP). If you substitute gnuchess for phalanx (perhaps /usr/games/gnuchess ? guessing here!) you should be good to go. To find where gnuchess lives, try this command: which gnuchess The output of that command (if gnuchess is in your search path) will be what you place after the "-fcp" on that command line for xboard. Roy
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