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Avatar of 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.

Avatar of eddysallin

use your own head.......

Avatar of madhatter5

I would, but I don't have one

Avatar of 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

Avatar of heinzie

Fancy+popeye

http://probleemblad.nl/link.html

Avatar of madhatter5

where heinzie? I just see a problem magazine.

Avatar of heinzie

It's under the link called popeye.rar

Avatar of 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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Avatar of heinzie

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

Avatar of madhatter5

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

Avatar of madhatter5

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

Avatar of 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.

Avatar of madhatter5

what's freeware?

Avatar of NimzoRoy

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

Avatar of Scottrf

Google is your friend.

Avatar of dardino

you can download also this:

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

It is an interface for Popeye

Avatar of lytonn

ChestUCI solving chess classic problems.

Avatar of Brb2023bruhh

ENGINE INDEED

Avatar of AlonEfrati

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

It is all free.  

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