Ubuntu and chess.

Indeed, and that was an entirely different GNU Chess. (Probably GNU Chess 4. We are now at GNU Chess 6, which is basically Fruit with a different interface.)

I was not aware that GNU Chess had levels. You can of course always weaken it a bit by giving it very short thinking time, but this works only to a limited extent. (Like 200 Elo for every factor of 10 time reduction, so that you would need a factor 100,000 to dumb it down by 1000 Elo, which is not practical because th eclock on your computer doesn't 'tick' fast enough to measure such short times.)

Fairy-Max is only about 2000 Elo at full strength, however. And in addition to orthodox Chess it also plays some 25 variants at about the same level.

I've beaten a level 10 Chess Titans on Windows 7

I heard that Chess Titans was excessively weak. Can it even beat Fairy-Max?

This thread may have died, but for those that find it with a search engine, Sam Copeland has a great post on this very topic;   https://www.chess.com/blog/SamCopeland/the-best-linux-apps-for-chess

and another article on databases:

https://www.chess.com/blog/SamCopeland/databases-tips-tricks-and-recommendations

He's got some great youtube videos on using it.

I have used SCID and SCID vs. PC in Ubuntu, and I like the latter more, but SCID installs effortlessly right from the Software Center.  Critter is a 3000+ engine that is also in the Software Center.  I have that latest version of Stockfish and the latest free version of Kumodo working.  Stockfish is my go to for annotating games.

Another great series of posts that got me started with Ubuntu and chess are found under this member's blog:  https://www.chess.com/member/delatbabel

If you have specific questions, shoot me a message on chess.com,  I'll try to help.

a fellow LinuxGeek.

SCID vs. PC - main page on sourceforge:  http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/#toc1

there are instructions to installing in, and a link to another site that walks through it in detail.

I'm glad this topic has come again. I forgot to bookmark it. I'm sick of Windows and when I get a new PC will ditch windows and just keep an old PC for old software.

you can get oracle virtual box which as it says will set up a virtual computer on your machine in which you can load any operating system that you have.  There are some excellent youtube tutorials on how to install and use it.  Its not difficult at all.  Fred Mellender has some excllent tutorials on how to use, populate and search all kinds of parameters using SCID.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_ZPltcSyjo

I'm curious.How did this thread title come to include the word "Ubuntu"?That is a  Zulu word-which means a quality that includes the essential human virtues compassion and humanity

Ubuntu is a particular implementation of Linux like Windows is of DOS. I minimise my use of Windows. I don't like Bill Gates for one thing.

Sounds like a lot of people are trying to install other operating systems to avoid win10 instability? and win updates the cause? If you truly believe that the win 10 platform becomes unstable because of updates? simply stop them. Just google win10 auto updates registry hack. not sure how virtualisation helps? you're still running win10 in its native environment? better to dual boot. but even then? What does dual booting fix exactly? you still haven't solved the initial problem which is the stability issue? antivirus software can also make your environment unstable. especially if ram is limited. feels like this thread is a little confused?

The instability issue was caused by Windows 10. My computer was running Windows 7 and was working fine. Then Micro$oft came along with a pop up window asking if I wanted to run Windows 10. I clicked the "x" on the right hand corner which usually cancels the window. But instead it caused Windows 10 to download. This has been documented throughout the internet. When I restarted my computer it crashed. I had bought this computer as a refurb and it did not come with a Windows disk. I could not get the computer to restart without the disk and was forced to either get a Windows disk for more than 100 smackers or download on another computer Ubuntu. So I got Ubuntu and ran it on the computer that had crashed. A year passed and now I find that there has been no problems with Ubuntu. No instability, no annoying pop ups, no crashes. Ubuntu runs faster and is more stable than Windows ever was. Micro$oft shot themselves in the foot when they tried to take control of everybody's computer. In short, Windows is a virus and Ubuntu is the ideal operating system. I was able to run Lucas Chess and Scid Vs PC on Ubuntu using a free program called "Wine" that comes in the Ubuntu repository. BTW I was also able to run Gnu Backgammon on Wine even tho it wouldn't work on Ubuntu alone. My idea is that all chess players should use Ubuntu, that way we would be able to help each other out with any problems they may be having with running chess programs. Ubuntu is ideal for chess because of its stability which we need in order to be able to store our games and databases. And Ubuntu is ideal for browsing so that we can go to other chess websites and all other sites as well. So to answer your questions, I do not have to stop the updates because I am using Ubuntu LTS which needs no updates, I need no antivirus software, and my ram in my machine is not limited--I have 4 GB--but it is a fact that Ubuntu uses less ram than Windows. My one complaint is their hokey name, instead of Ubuntu they should have called it "Wonderful!"        

The alternative of Chessbase is SCID or ChessX. You can install Arena Chess for Linux and you can use for play again Stockfish or any chess engine you like.