[gcompris-devel] Re: chess

[Bruno Coudoin]

You are correct, I checked the FAQ and gnuchess5 is a complete rewrite
of gnuchess4.
Unfortunatly, it is incompatible with gnuchessx and requires a port of
gcompris chess :(

I started to look at it but it can take times...

Bruno.


Le lun 14/10/2002 à 18:37, pgeorges a écrit :
> bruno wrote:
> 
> > For gnuchess vs gnuchessx, I checked on my mandreke 9 and gnuchessx is
> > no more distributed in the 3 DL CDs.
> > gnuchess is a different executable than gnuchessx and cannot be used to
> > my knowledge as a replacement. I don't know what happened to gnuchessx
> > and what is its future.
> 
> For me, gnuchess (5) replaces gnuchessx (4) : gnuchess (5) can be used 
> with xboard (avalaible in Mandrake 9.0), showing it can communicate 
> using xboard protocol. So gnuchess should also be used with gcompris, 
> the same way.
> 
> Pascal
>