Linux chess engines and guis, and wine?

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AnthonyTheSage
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Linux chess engines and guis, and wine?

Post by AnthonyTheSage » Sun Jun 12, 2011 9:27 pm

I inherited a netbook with Windows 7 installed. The previous owner didn't know much about pcs and the operating system is all screwed up. Since there is no restore disk, I'm thinking about installing ubuntu linux. I have seen alot of linux chess engines, but I'm kinda worried about gui's? I've heard that fritz doesn't work very well under linux? but arena runs ok under wine. Is there any guis specifically written for linux? What do you linux users do for guis and engines? Any advice and tips would be great. Thanks.
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tano-urayoan
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Re: Linux chess engines and guis, and wine?

Post by tano-urayoan » Mon Jun 13, 2011 12:37 am

xboard, there is a commercial linux shredder, scid for databases.
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Kurt
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Re: Linux chess engines and guis, and wine?

Post by Kurt » Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:41 pm

SCID Linux is a very fine chess GUI you can use as a database (like ChessBase) but
also for analysing games with Linux-UCI-engines and with all other UCI-engines
provided you have installed Wine.
http://scid.sourceforge.net/download.html
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JcMaTe
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Re: Linux chess engines and guis, and wine?

Post by JcMaTe » Tue Jun 14, 2011 2:59 am

You can try reinstaling windows 7 USB Pen Drive Using Grub4Dos

more information

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/91 ... b4dos.html
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