Re: Chess under Fedora-23

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:48 AM, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > > > On 08/03/16 09:05, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > > > > On 07/03/16 16:05, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> Tim wrote: > >> > >>> Allegedly, on or about 06 March 2016, Timothy Murphy sent: > I have gnuchess,

Re: Chess under Fedora-23

On 08/03/16 09:05, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > > On 07/03/16 16:05, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Tim wrote: >> >>> Allegedly, on or about 06 March 2016, Timothy Murphy sent: I have gnuchess, knights and xboard installed. As I said, adding the --xboards option to gnuchess has no effect.

Re: Chess under Fedora-23

On 07/03/16 16:05, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Tim wrote: > >> Allegedly, on or about 06 March 2016, Timothy Murphy sent: >>> I have gnuchess, knights and xboard installed. >>> As I said, adding the --xboards option to gnuchess has no effect. >> "xboard" vs "--xboards" >> >> Have you checked for

Re: Chess under Fedora-23

Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 06 March 2016, Timothy Murphy sent: >> I have gnuchess, knights and xboard installed. >> As I said, adding the --xboards option to gnuchess has no effect. > > "xboard" vs "--xboards" > > Have you checked for simple typing and syntax errors? I'm not sure what

Re: Chess under Fedora-23

Allegedly, on or about 06 March 2016, Timothy Murphy sent: > I have gnuchess, knights and xboard installed. > As I said, adding the --xboards option to gnuchess has no effect. "xboard" vs "--xboards" Have you checked for simple typing and syntax errors? -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux

Re: Chess under Fedora-23

Joe Zeff wrote: > According to dnf info gnuchess, the program itself runs in a CLI > environment, using curses. In order to use it in a GUI, you need to > have xboard installed as well. Thanks for your response. I have gnuchess, knights and xboard installed. As I said, adding the --xboards

Re: Chess under Fedora-23

On 03/06/2016 11:39 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm not sure what you mean. I don't see gnuchess in any "menu config". According to dnf info gnuchess, the program itself runs in a CLI environment, using curses. In order to use it in a GUI, you need to have xboard installed as well. The

Re: Chess under Fedora-23

Tim wrote: >> So one has to start knights, >> and then choose gnuchess as "computer engine". >> This strikes me as slightly weird. > Are you only starting things through the CLI? I see no other way to start gnuchess. > I don't play chess, so I don't install it. But I did for my mother, >

Re: Chess under Fedora-23

Allegedly, on or about 05 March 2016, Timothy Murphy sent: > So one has to start knights, > and then choose gnuchess as "computer engine". > This strikes me as slightly weird. > And what is the option "gnuchess --xboard" meant to do? > (It does nothing.) > I would have thought an option "gnuchess

Re: Chess under Fedora-23

Richard Ibbotson wrote: >> I have installed knights and xboard. >> But how do you use them with gnuchess ? > Like GUI based software that has been around since the 90's a menu > appears when you start it. In the case of Knights you'll see a panel > called “new game”. It asks you to select a

Re: Chess under Fedora-23

On Fri, 2016-03-04 at 13:48 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Is it possible to play gnuchess with a board > using either knights or xboard > (both of which I have installed in my Fedora-23/KDE laptop). > I tried "gnuchess --xboard" but no board appeared. See also gnome-chess, though I don't know

Re: Chess under Fedora-23

On Friday 04 March 2016 15:23:05 Timothy Murphy wrote: > > See also gnome-chess and knights and xboard. I use Knights. You > > can > > choose which chess engine you want to use. > > I have installed knights and xboard. > But how do you use them with gnuchess ? > > I know I could use pychess, >

Re: Chess under Fedora-23

Richard Ibbotson wrote: > On Friday 04 March 2016 13:48:48 Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Is it possible to play gnuchess with a board >> using either knights or xboard >> (both of which I have installed in my Fedora-23/KDE laptop). >> I tried "gnuchess --xboard" but no board appeared. > dnf search

Re: Chess under Fedora-23

On Friday 04 March 2016 13:48:48 Timothy Murphy wrote: > Is it possible to play gnuchess with a board > using either knights or xboard > (both of which I have installed in my Fedora-23/KDE laptop). > I tried "gnuchess --xboard" but no board appeared. dnf search gnuchess See also gnome-chess and

Chess under Fedora-23

Is it possible to play gnuchess with a board using either knights or xboard (both of which I have installed in my Fedora-23/KDE laptop). I tried "gnuchess --xboard" but no board appeared. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin -- users