linux chess

hi all; new to this forum.  I am currently running crafty on linux.  Problem is it  is too good for me.  Is there a more flexible linux chess program in terms of playing levels - crafty only seems to have one level - tooo bl**dy good

thanks all

Try GNU Chess.  It is nowhere near as strong as Crafty, and if you are using xboard it's a simple command-line change to tell it to use GNU Chess. Recently I looked at another engine that included a Chess Mentor-like analysis system written in Tcl, but I couldn't get it to compile; you could search Sourceforge if you want to give it a shot.  Alternatively, you could run Fritz or  Chessmaster or whatever Windows chess engine you like under Wine (Fritz 8 works well according to the Wine website).

There is a setting somewhere for difficulty level, click Game then its like settings or something. Easy is still pretty tricky though.

Though there is a bug report saying that chess it too hard and there should be a very easy level.

Also mhtraylor, can you give the link to the chess mentor one please?

MadnessRed:

It's called Scid. I just looked at it again; you would still provide the engine, but Scid is an integrated database with all the statistics and etc. I should have said Tactics Trainer, because it apparently has those features (judging by the docs, since I never got it working).

ok many thanks

thank you  all for your help.  i will investigate....