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Article #1446Re: How do I use xboard + gnuchess to play bughouse standalone?
From: John Hardin
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 23:52
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 23:52
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Tim Mann sez:
> On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 11:44:42 -0800, John Hardin <jhardin@impsec.org>
> wrote:
>> The FAQ covers how to use xboard to play bughouse on an ICS server, but
>> I'd like to practice by myself. Is there any way to set up xboard +
>> gnuchess to play bughouse with the computer playing three of the
>> players?
>
> No. GNU Chess doesn't understand bughouse, and xboard doesn't have
> support for playing bughouse against a local engine anyway.
(thinking slowly today) ...do you know of any Linux-compatible chess
program that does play bughouse in single-player mode?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,11392eff2dcc3c0e X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-01 15:52:27 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: John Hardin <jhardin@impsec.org> Newsgroups: gnu.chess Subject: Re: How do I use xboard + gnuchess to play bughouse standalone? Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 15:52:26 -0800 Organization: Imperial Security Lines: 26 Message-ID: <pan.2003.02.01.23.52.24.949510.7311@impsec.org> References: <3E3C23AA.8070902@impsec.org> <20030201125225.6a7ab20f.usenet@tim-mann.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 04.29.a8.c1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Server-Date: 1 Feb 2003 23:52:26 GMT User-Agent: Pan/0.11.3 (Unix) X-Comment-To: "Tim Mann" <usenet@tim-mann.org>