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  • Hooking up Stockfish

    From Louis Epstein@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 29 00:34:38 2022
    The Stockfish chess engine (version 15.1 is available
    from the home site but the FreeBSD port is apparently still
    at version 14) requires another program to serve as its
    interface in order to be played.

    What compatible programs are available for FreeBSD?

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  • From Louis Epstein@21:1/5 to Louis Epstein on Sat Jan 14 03:35:05 2023
    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
    The Stockfish chess engine (version 15.1 is available
    from the home site but the FreeBSD port is apparently still
    at version 14) requires another program to serve as its
    interface in order to be played.

    What compatible programs are available for FreeBSD?

    No one has anything to offer on this?

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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  • From DaveG@21:1/5 to Louis Epstein on Sat Jan 14 12:16:16 2023
    On Sat, 14 Jan 2023 03:35:05 +0000, Louis Epstein wrote:

    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
    The Stockfish chess engine (version 15.1 is available
    from the home site but the FreeBSD port is apparently still
    at version 14) requires another program to serve as its
    interface in order to be played.

    What compatible programs are available for FreeBSD?

    No one has anything to offer on this?

    Have you asked the port maintainer? According to /usr/ports/games/stockfish/Makefile

    MAINTAINER= execve@gmail.com



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  • From Christian Weisgerber@21:1/5 to Louis Epstein on Sat Jan 14 14:40:15 2023
    On 2023-01-14, Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> wrote:

    The Stockfish chess engine (version 15.1 is available
    from the home site but the FreeBSD port is apparently still
    at version 14) requires another program to serve as its
    interface in order to be played.

    What compatible programs are available for FreeBSD?

    No one has anything to offer on this?

    I have no idea whatsoever, but I would start by looking whether
    Xboard can interface with Stockfish.

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  • From Louis Epstein@21:1/5 to Christian Weisgerber on Fri Jan 20 18:55:55 2023
    Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
    On 2023-01-14, Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> wrote:

    The Stockfish chess engine (version 15.1 is available
    from the home site but the FreeBSD port is apparently still
    at version 14) requires another program to serve as its
    interface in order to be played.

    What compatible programs are available for FreeBSD?

    No one has anything to offer on this?

    I have no idea whatsoever, but I would start by looking whether
    Xboard can interface with Stockfish.


    It seems there need to be intermediaries such as
    PolyGlot or UCI2WB to bridge between Stockfish's
    UCI protocol and Xboard's CECP protocol...there is
    also a Fairy-Stockfish that extends Stockfish and
    can deal with Xboard.

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    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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  • From Louis Epstein@21:1/5 to DaveG on Fri Jan 20 18:31:36 2023
    DaveG <nospam@nospam.net> wrote:
    On Sat, 14 Jan 2023 03:35:05 +0000, Louis Epstein wrote:

    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
    The Stockfish chess engine (version 15.1 is available
    from the home site but the FreeBSD port is apparently still
    at version 14) requires another program to serve as its
    interface in order to be played.

    What compatible programs are available for FreeBSD?

    No one has anything to offer on this?

    Have you asked the port maintainer? According to /usr/ports/games/stockfish/Makefile

    MAINTAINER= execve@gmail.com


    (I note that 15.1 has now reached the ports tree).
    Had not asked the maintainer but will look into it.

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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to le@main.lekno.ws on Fri Jan 20 19:23:47 2023
    In article <tqeo3r$gv0$1@reader2.panix.com>,
    Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> wrote:
    Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
    On 2023-01-14, Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> wrote:

    The Stockfish chess engine (version 15.1 is available
    from the home site but the FreeBSD port is apparently still
    at version 14) requires another program to serve as its
    interface in order to be played.

    What compatible programs are available for FreeBSD?

    No one has anything to offer on this?

    I have no idea whatsoever, but I would start by looking whether
    Xboard can interface with Stockfish.


    It seems there need to be intermediaries such as
    PolyGlot or UCI2WB to bridge between Stockfish's
    UCI protocol and Xboard's CECP protocol...there is
    also a Fairy-Stockfish that extends Stockfish and
    can deal with Xboard.

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

    The following works on 12.3, at least for stockfish 14:

    pkg install stockfish
    pkg install eboard
    pkg install polyglot

    create a polyglot.ini file in ~/.eboard/eng-out by following the
    instructions at:

    https://askubuntu.com/questions/124297/running-stockfish-rykba-engines-with-eboard

    (except use /usr/local/bin/stockfish instead of /usr/games/stockfish)

    start it up with the instructions at the askubuntu link.
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