The usual procedure should apply. After you have unpacked
the sources, type (in the sources top-level directory)
./configure
make
You may also pass several other options such as compiler options
to configure, just type ./configure –help for advice. In particular,
you may experiment with compiler optimization flags, which are added
easily as (assuming you have a bourne-type shell)
CFLAGS="-O3 -ffast-math" ./configure
The build should work with gcc, it also works with the Sun Workshop
compiler and maybe others.
Test gnuchess by typing
./gnuchess.exe (or ./gnuchess on Linux/Unix)
easy
new
post
depth 8
go
quit
You should see an 8-ply search. Most machines these
days should finish it within a few seconds. If not,
Control-C out, and do
[chendong@erasmus gnuchess-5.07]$
[chendong@erasmus gnuchess-5.07]$ less INSTALL
The usual procedure should apply. After you have unpacked
the sources, type (in the sources top-level directory)
./configure
make
You may also pass several other options such as compiler options
to configure, just type ./configure –help for advice. In particular,
you may experiment with compiler optimization flags, which are added
easily as (assuming you have a bourne-type shell)
CFLAGS="-O3 -ffast-math" ./configure
The build should work with gcc, it also works with the Sun Workshop
compiler and maybe others.
Test gnuchess by typing
./gnuchess.exe (or ./gnuchess on Linux/Unix)
easy
new
post
depth 8
go
quit
You should see an 8-ply search. Most machines these
days should finish it within a few seconds. If not,
Control-C out, and do
[chendong@erasmus gnuchess-5.07]$ ls
acinclude.m4 book config.sub COPYING INSTALL Makefile.in NEWS TODO
aclocal.m4 ChangeLog configure depcomp install-sh missing README
AUTHORS config.guess configure.ac doc Makefile.am mkinstalldirs src
[chendong@erasmus gnuchess-5.07]$ less INSTALL
The usual procedure should apply. After you have unpacked
the sources, type (in the sources top-level directory)
./configure
make
You may also pass several other options such as compiler options
to configure, just type ./configure –help for advice. In particular,
you may experiment with compiler optimization flags, which are added
easily as (assuming you have a bourne-type shell)
CFLAGS="-O3 -ffast-math" ./configure
The build should work with gcc, it also works with the Sun Workshop
compiler and maybe others.
Test gnuchess by typing
./gnuchess.exe (or ./gnuchess on Linux/Unix)
easy
new
post
depth 8
go
quit
You should see an 8-ply search. Most machines these
days should finish it within a few seconds. If not,
Control-C out, and do
depth 6
go
quit
instead.
If you got this far, congratulations.
If you want to install the software in some global directory,
by default /usr/local, become root and type
make install
If you want to install the sources in some other directory
than /usr/local, replace the first line by
./configure –prefix=/my/favourite/dir
You can build an opening book which may enhance the value
of gnuchess quite a lot. In order to do so, get the file
book.pgn (see book/README for instructions on how to get it)
and type the following.
ln -s ../book/book.pgn
./gnuchess
book add book.pgn
quit
This may take some minutes, depending on the speed of your
machines. The book is quite large (180,000 master games).
If you want a smaller book or you do not want to wait, do the
following instead:
head -30000 ../book/book.pgn > smallbook.pgn
./gnuchess
book add smallbook.pgn
quit
This will make a much smaller book.
Original Author:
Stuart Cracraft
Laguna Niguel, CA
March, 2001
Modifications:
Lukas Geyer <lukas@debian.org>
Simon Waters <Simon@wretched.demon.co.uk>
