chess: post-game computer analysis under Gnu/Linux

stateless · 11-18-2014, 05:03 AM

Hi. I use the Raptor (java-based) chess client for playing on FICS. Raptor is really nice for playing the game, but it doesn't seem to have any post-game computer analysis functionality built-in. What is the most ideal way of doing post-game analysis under Gnu/Linux? (I'm running Debian Wheezy.)

Teufel · 11-18-2014, 05:28 AM

You need chess engine, not a GUI. There are a lot of engines that have built-in analysis possibility: stockfish, scid e.t.c.

stateless · 11-18-2014, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Teufel

You need chess engine, not a GUI. There are a lot of engines that have built-in analysis possibility: stockfish, scid e.t.c.

Yeah, but you need some kind of GUI to interact with the chess engine, yes...? To keep track of the variations, select moves in the game history, display the moves, etc...?

Or do you do your analysis on the command line...?

John VV · 11-18-2014, 02:45 PM

believe it or not
BUT

The GNU Chess engine often will beat masters and sometimes a grandmaster
"gnuchess"
and "chessx" as a gui and tool for analyzing

--- from my openSUSE zypper

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Information for package chessx:
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Repository: Packman Repository
Name: chessx
Version: 0.8-1.1
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: http://packman.links2linux.de
Installed: Yes
Status: up-to-date
Installed Size: 4.4 MiB
Summary: A chess database application
Description:
- ChessX is a chess database. With ChessX you can operate on your collection of chess games in many ways: browse, edit, add, organize, analyze, etc.
- ChessX is totally free and open source. You can simply download and use it as is, or modify it the way you like under the GPL licence.
- ChessX is cross-platform. You can use it indifferently on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
- If you are interested in details, ChessX is written in C++ programming language and uses Qt library to have a modern and portable graphical interface.

stateless · 11-18-2014, 04:20 PM

chessx doesn't seem to be in Debian stable yet, but I found a program called scid which seems to pretty good.

Teufel · 11-19-2014, 01:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stateless

Yeah, but you need some kind of GUI to interact with the chess engine, yes...? To keep track of the variations, select moves in the game history, display the moves, etc...?

Or do you do your analysis on the command line...?

I didn't point you to use GUI since you have it in use already.
I did answered your question: you need a chess engine to be able to analyse game.