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Chess Program Released for Linux and Mac

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the still-waiting-for-windows-vs-linux-chess-match dept.

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."

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  1. Zappa engine by whovian · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Zappa has beaten Shredder in competition, but not during speed chess. Five days later, Zappa was named the 2005 World Computer Chess Champion.

    Download earlier Zappa engines from here

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  2. In other news: by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: 4, Funny

    Overnight the number of games for OSX doubled! First photoshop now this!

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    1. Re:In other news: by generic-man · · Score: 2, Funny

      Windows users aspire to rid the world of land mines, while OSX users are obsessed with regicide.

      (TWAJS)

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    2. Re:In other news: by couch_potato · · Score: 2, Funny

      I wonder what this says about their respective users...

      Um... absolutely nothing?

  3. what?! by XO · · Score: 3, Funny

    You mean GNUChess isn't considered the cream of the crop?!

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  4. FYI: not free by vistic · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's not free... can download a 30-day restricted version to try out.

  5. Linux? No need! by alan_dershowitz · · Score: 4, Funny

    For Linux? If I wanted to play with a program with 119,060,324 possible variations within six steps, I'd just go configure Sendmail.

  6. Am I the first to say Baduk? by Fen14 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or...Go. Go Go Go Go Go. Gotta mention it in a chess article as a /. meme.

  7. Re:Test arena for linux by Donniedarkness · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Now if Linux is too hard for a Chess Grand Mater, we are in trouble.

    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 many chess programs so much that, while I could not achieve a 1300 rating, I was getting progressively better against the computer... and moving on to tougher and tougher levels.

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  8. Crafty, Rebel, Fruit, Ruffian by alito · · Score: 5, Informative

    First major player!?
    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

    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/ (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)