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Chess Program Released for Linux and Mac 28
lrnzcpmn writes "Today, the world champion chess program Schredder released a version for Mac and Linux. This is important because it is the first time a major software player in the chess world has released a version of its chess engine for Linux and the general public. You can download a demo version on shredderchess.com."
Zappa engine (Score:5, Interesting)
Download earlier Zappa engines from here [uiuc.edu]
In other news: (Score:5, Funny)
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(You even get "that puzzle game with the Apple logo" as a Dashboard widget in 10.4, the first time it's been bundled with Mac OS since OS X came out.)
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Um... absolutely nothing?
what?! (Score:4, Funny)
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FYI: not free (Score:5, Informative)
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Linux? No need! (Score:5, Funny)
Test arena for linux (Score:2)
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Does such a species exist? Very few chess players know how to mate...I'd be surprised if there were any masters.
Anyways, I don't see why people even bother with chess programs for the computer. It's a completely different experience than playing REAL chess (at least at the tournament level). Computers tend to play very... illogically at times, as odd as that may sound.
A few years ago, when I was rated 1200 (USCF), I had played so m
Am I the first to say Baduk? (Score:2, Funny)
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Grammar Nazi Ahoy (Score:2)
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I don't know -- whom are you kidding?
Crafty, Rebel, Fruit, Ruffian (Score:5, Informative)
Crafty's been available for linux for over a decade. It has always been a major player and still wins the occassional tournament (including CCT6). It's free and source is available to boot.
get from ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt [uab.edu]
Rebel's been available for linux for a couple of years
Fruit came second in the latest WCCC (above shredder). It was GPL (decided to go commercial after that result), but the GPL version from a couple of weeks before the tournament can be gotten from http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/ [wbec-ridderkerk.nl] (download section)
And as mentioned in a prior comment, version 1.1 of Zappa (version 2 is current WCCC champion) is available free for linux.
Ruffian is another very strong (top 10) engine, also available for linux.
(btw, it's Shredder, not Schredder)
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