Author: Martin Andersen2
Date: 13:55:22 12/06/05
Dear chessfriends, for the first time I got Arena for Windows to work in a Linux environment. It was easy with the help of Crossover Office 5.0, http://www.codeweavers.com/. Crossover is a commercial version of wine, it costs 40 dollars. There's a 30 day trial version. No Windows CD or license is needed. I fetched Arena 1.1 with SOS engine. Maybe other Arena packages also work. To test the Arena GUI, I ran a 20 game match between Rybka 1.0 Beta 32 bit and Toga II 1.1a, both Windows binaries :-) 45min/game per player. Ponder off. No engame tablebases. Arena main book 7.01 for both engines. The GUI was stable, not one crash. Result: 1: Rybka v1.0 Beta.w32 11.0/20 ····················· =1=01==101==0==01011? 99.00 2: TogaII 9.0/20 =0=10==010==1==10100? ····················· 99.00 Rybka won the last two games.. Athlon 2400+ and Fedora Linux core 4. This was my first engine-engine match and my first experience with Arena, very interesting indeed. I've put up a screenshot here: http://www.al-data.dk/arena1.1in-Linux-with-Crossover-Office.html I would like to thank Kunnar Klauks, Andreas Guettinger, Alessandro Scotti, Tord Romstad and Ryan B for taking their time writing a response to my question about engine vs engine in Linux. I hope you understand that I prefer avoiding the aging xboard, if possible :-) There's no guarantee Arena will work everytime, but hopefully someone will try and post their result. Games in PGN below. Martin.
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