Just a quick post to say how much I love the Stonewall. I was almost always a Slav / semi-Slav player when faced with d4 but I have now changed to the Dutch / Stonewall Dutch after watching GM Eugene Perelshteyn's recent series of videos on it. ...
I had a bit of a long break after Easter, and today is Australia's ANZAC day holiday so I thought I would post a non-Linux technology related topic. To be honest I was unsure of what to write about until I saw a tweet this morning from @Pogonina ...
In this post I'm going to talk a bit more about scid, its native database format, and some of the things that can be done with it. I'll start with a few basic concepts. I mentioned a few blog posts ago about the PGN file format. It's a file for...
I'm now going to launch into a slightly technical discussion of chess engine configuration using scid. Before I start, I'm reminded of an old saying -- Windows programmers say "it's broken, how do we fix it?", Unix programmers say "it's not broke...
So far I have not gone into any detail about configuring any of the software that I have installed. The first thing that I will be configuring is the opening books. As some people have noted and commented, without these opening books the engines...
I did say in one of my earlier posts that I was a better software engineer than I am a chess player, and I think a few points here will illustrate that. I'm going to talk about one of the programs I installed earlier, scid, and how to use it to a...
I thought I would just make a quick post to say how to use xboard to play a game between two chess engines. In another post later I will explore a better way of doing this, but I am going to just start with a simple game between stockfish (the st...
I had this comment and question posted to one of my previous blog posts: Your estimated ratings look a bit strange but it seems that Stockfish is much stronger that the other engines. I took the list of ratings from the wikipedia article on ches...
Without leaping into the bells and whistles of all of the various UI programs and the engines, I am going to give you a simple example of how to play chess against one of the engines, first using the xboard interface and then against the scid inte...
There are a lot of chess engines available, and you can find a more full list on this wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_engine Here I'm only going to discuss the freely available ones that you will be able to install easily on Ub...
So in the previous post I gave you a list of chess programs you can install. This time I will talk briefly about a few of the front ends. xboard xboard is the oldest of the front ends and it's the oldest looking. It is ugly, and scrolling is c...
The first part is the installation. Fire up your preferred program to do installation of packages on Ubuntu. I use Synaptic, there are a couple of other options. You need to install this list of packages, and all of their dependencies. I found...
I thought I would test this chess.com blog out and write up a couple of posts on how to get some chess programs working on Ubuntu. I will start with a few concepts. I am using Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric) and it's been my primary desktop platform sinc...
