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madhatter5

Hello! I am very frustrated because I cannot find a free engine for chess problem composing and solving (preferably with fairy chess as well). Winchloe is commercial, and for some reason I can't open popeye. When I download it, I get like a trillion files and can't figure out what to do. If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated.

eddysallin

use your own head.......

madhatter5

I would, but I don't have one

NimzoRoy

Let's see a picture of you, the last time I saw someone without a head was back in the French Revolution where Dr Guilliton was NOT killed with his own invention. In the meantime, learn how to use search engines and look up your own answers and you won't have to deal with worthless answers like "use your own head" or "learn how to use search engines."

http://www.cln.org/searching_faqs.html

http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/oct01/price.htm

heinzie

Fancy+popeye

http://probleemblad.nl/link.html

madhatter5

where heinzie? I just see a problem magazine.

heinzie

It's under the link called popeye.rar

madhatter5

gee, thanks. Every time I get a link to the same place, but it doesn't work!!!!! I download it and get weird files, but it doesn't activate! Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

heinzie

All you have to do is unzip/unrar it and start the file called fancy.exe

madhatter5

how do you unzip/unrar it? sorry, I am not too great with these things.

madhatter5

oh, and by the way I can only find a link called popeye4.55, not popeye.rar if that makes a difference.

NimzoRoy

This is probably a waste of time, but you look up RAR in a search engine - it's a form of file compression like ZIP files, only it's some other proprietary form of file compression that requires specialized software (freeware is available for this) to "decompress" or "unzip" it.

madhatter5

what's freeware?

NimzoRoy

: software that is available for use at no cost or for a nominal usually voluntary fee

Scottrf

Google is your friend.

dardino

you can download also this:

http://www.accademiadelproblema.org/ScacchiPainter/ScacchiPainter-2.1.15.zip

It is an interface for Popeye

lytonn

ChestUCI solving chess classic problems.

Brb2023bruhh

ENGINE INDEED

AlonEfrati

Just download to your phone app called Droidfish it uses stockfish which is a very strong engine.

It is all free.