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wolfen69
December 28th, 2011, 08:09 AM
What is the best chess game that combines great graphics (3D Staunton pieces) and can be very difficult? I tried glchess, but just want some other opinions.

mips
December 28th, 2011, 10:13 AM
Dunno if it's the best but have a look at DreamChess, http://www.dreamchess.org/


A moderately strong chess engine is included: Dreamer. However, should this engine be too weak for you, then you can use any other XBoard-compatible chess engine, including the popular Crafty and GNU Chess.

If you don;t like the 3D pieces it might even be possible do download some off the net and use those instead if you are willing to fiddle around a bit.

Anyway, it's what I use.

Majorix
December 28th, 2011, 02:12 PM
Linux is a rather poor platform when it comes to good chess programs. However there is one pearl:
http://www.shredderchess.com/linux.html
It costs some money, but it is the best.

wolfen69
December 28th, 2011, 07:59 PM
Thanks for the input. Keep them coming!

Mikeb85
December 29th, 2011, 01:04 AM
Another vote for Shredder.

DangerOnTheRanger
December 29th, 2011, 01:39 AM
Linux is a rather poor platform when it comes to good chess programs. However there is one pearl:
http://www.shredderchess.com/linux.html
It costs some money, but it is the best.

*point*
Objection!

As far as I've seen, Stockfish is the best chess engine available, and better yet, it's open-source and installable from the package repos (package name "stockfish"). Of course, it's just a chess engine - no interface or anything - but you can use it with any Xboard-compatible chess client, which is pretty much every chess interface out there now.

EDIT: Be warned, Stockfish is very, very good - world-class level. I've watched Grand Masters lose to this thing.

wolfen69
December 29th, 2011, 03:52 AM
As far as I've seen, Stockfish is the best chess engine available, and better yet, it's open-source and installable from the package repos (package name "stockfish").

So if I download it, it will automatically load into my glchess? I'm not new to chess, just new to the computer chess thing.

Edit: I see stockfish is now one of the engine choices in glchess. Thanks for the tip!

Toz
December 29th, 2011, 04:24 AM
eboard (http://www.bergo.eng.br/eboard/) is nice. You can play against various chess engines and on fics. (though not a true 3d chess game)

wolfen69
December 29th, 2011, 06:09 AM
eboard (http://www.bergo.eng.br/eboard/) is nice. You can play against various chess engines and on fics. (though not a true 3d chess game)

I just signed up at FICS, and the Knights board can be used which is semi-3D.(good enough) Thanks a ton, now I can play against people whenever I want.

anaconda
December 29th, 2011, 02:07 PM
phalanx is the best chess engine in my opinion

plays more like a human would. Gnuchess is boring, because I lose against it every time... :D

haqking
December 29th, 2011, 02:16 PM
Never looked at Linux native, as for best that is subjective, it is all about the engine really.

I personally use a DGT chess board connected to a VM running fritz with the fritz engine and rybka and crafty and shredder and a few others, i usually play against the fritz engine itself or rybka though.

Rybka was the strongest engine for a while, i love its lines, however it was toppled by Robbolito last year, which happens to be a reversed engineered rybka anyways, but houdini is the top now i believe.

Edit: here is a list of engines and current ratings http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/

wolfen69
December 29th, 2011, 08:57 PM
phalanx is the best chess engine in my opinion

plays more like a human would. Gnuchess is boring, because I lose against it every time... :D

On the easy level, gnuchess made some really dumb moves. Were you playing the harder levels?

k009ris
February 23rd, 2013, 06:09 PM
Hi

I've been using a number of chess software on Puppy Linux, and i don't think Linux is any worse than Windows for chess! From my experience Scid is a pretty good database, it's tree feature is much faster than Chessbase.As for the engines my favorite is
Critter .Another thing, Chessbase 9 runs pretty well on Wine but remember you have to install chess fonts to be able to view chess books in Chessbase format,just copy them over to Fonts folder.
(~/.wine/drive_c/windows)
Chessbase 9 under Wine also runs Deep Junior 10 chess engine.
All those programs I had tried are 32 bit , have no tried any 64 bit versions.

Anyway happy chessing on Linux!

PS .Critter link

http://www.vlasak.biz/critter/

Sef
February 23rd, 2013, 08:24 PM
Necromancing, so closed.