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    Running a chess/crazyhouse engine (tjchess) on xboard

    Hello guys,
    I would like to run TJchess 1.1 on xboard. I've already downloaded the linux version in the website (http://tonyjh.com/chess/).
    I think it is a winboard engine, not an UCI one.
    So I've searched how to play against a winboard engine on xboard on this forum and found
    Quote Originally Posted by shad0w9
    U need to use direct link to crafty, like for exemple:
    xboard -fcp "/usr/games/bin/crafty" -fd /usr/share/games/crafty/
    So I've tried a similar thing for TJchess but that did not work. I don't understand what are the fcp and fd linking to. Aren'y they supposed to both link to crafty.exe in that case? If so, why is it a different path? Which one is supposed to link to the engine.exe? And to what is supposed to link the other?

    I tried
    Code:
    xboard -fcp /home/isaac/Games/TJchessFICS/tjchess -fd /home/isaac/Games/TJchessFICS/
    but it says that the program "/home/isaac/Games/TJchessFICS/tjchess" terminated unexpectedly.
    When I try
    Code:
    xboard -fcp /tjchess -fd /home/isaac/Games/TJchessFICS/
    it says that the program "/tjchess" terminated unexpectedly.
    I tried with and without the "'s, it returns the same message. I cannot get it to run on xboard.
    Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
    Thanks in advance.

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    Re: Running a chess/crazyhouse engine (tjchess) on xboard

    Hi,

    What xboard version? This command line is working for me. Could you try it?

    xboard -cp -fd "/home/tony/TJchess" -fcp "./TJchess_1.1_linux_32bit"


    Or, if the TJchess binary is in your current directory, you don't need the -fd parameter and can try this:

    xboard -cp -fcp "./TJchess_1.1_linux_32bit"

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    Re: Running a chess/crazyhouse engine (tjchess) on xboard

    Quote Originally Posted by TonyJH View Post
    Hi,

    What xboard version? This command line is working for me. Could you try it?

    xboard -cp -fd "/home/tony/TJchess" -fcp "./TJchess_1.1_linux_32bit"


    Or, if the TJchess binary is in your current directory, you don't need the -fd parameter and can try this:

    xboard -cp -fcp "./TJchess_1.1_linux_32bit"
    Hi Tony! (I am critterbot on FICS, trying to use linux instead of windows). Thanks for helping me.
    I tried
    Code:
    xboard -cp -fd "/home/isaac/Games/TJchessFICS" -fcp "./tjchess"
    and I get "error: The first program (/TJchess) terminated unexpectedly". I attach a screenshot, the message appears in xboard, no the terminal itself.
    I use xboard 4.6.2.
    I tried with and without the "'s, it produces exactly the same error message.
    I changed the name of TJchess_1.1_linux_32bit to tjchess and it is in /home/isaac/Games/TJchessFICS for me.
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    Re: Running a chess/crazyhouse engine (tjchess) on xboard

    Ok guys! The problem was that apparently I had no permission to execute tjchess. So a simple "chmod u+x tjchess" worked.
    Thanks a lot Tony!

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