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Extract anonymized games out of a pgn
Thanks for your compliment about pgn-extract (I am its author). You might be able to make the task a little easier by adding --linelength 1000 to the argument list in order to get each game on a ...
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Losers Chess variant engine
https://github.com/ddugovic/Stockfish
has what you want. Not an offical version, but should be stable for production.
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Personal chess database
SCID does everything you are looking for, it's great chess database software.
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Stockfish 10 working on only 1 core at a time
Those appear to be options to set in your Web browser, which is effectively the platform that LiChess runs on. You don't mention which browser you're using…
Chrome uses multiple cores and thereby ...
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Chess Position Trainer on Linux or Minimax on Linux
I have not tried it, but you might be able to install Chess Position Trainer under Linux using WINE. I haven't looked at WINE in a long time, but it's apparently a lot better than it was ~10 years ...
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Chess Position Trainer on Linux or Minimax on Linux
Sorry, no. Chess Position Trainer only runs on Windows 7, 8, and 10.
See the system requirements here.
You could consider a virtual machine running Windows on a Linux host, but it will not run ...
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Stockfish 10 working on only 1 core at a time
I will have to take them at their word that just setting those settings will fix your problem, but here is how you do that.
In the URL bar, type "about:config" (without the quotes) and hit enter.
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Extract anonymized games out of a pgn
Scid vs PC requires [Black "AN Other1"] [White "AN Other2"] [Result ""].
Since this was cloned from SCID I'm pretty sure SCID will be the same. I suggest you write a ...
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Why can't I put Stockfish in SCID?
Make sure you are pointing to the binary distribution of Stockfish and not the source. The binary distribution should be a variation of stockfish_10_x64.
Make sure this binary has execute permissions: ...
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Workaround for strange behavior of Windows chess engines in Linux GUIs?
After a week-long struggle I found a stupid albeit usable workaround that could be helpful for someone else.
Windows engines run on a Windows computer (in my case a Windows 10 virtual machine in ...
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Extract anonymized games out of a pgn
You can use sed '/Result/c[Result ""]' my.pgn > no_results.pgn to replace lines containing the string Result with whatever you want the line to be. You can adopt this for whatever else ...
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SyzygyPath in asmFish
I don't think you should hard-core SyzygyPath because the ASM engine follows the UCI protocol. You can just send the SyzygyPath option to the engine.
If you insist to modify the assembly language (I ...
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SCID vs ChessBase - play, analyse, visualization - ubuntu
I suggest that you simply use a browser, and play online at chess.com, lichess.com, or chess24.com. While chess.com and chess24.com have paid versions too, all three have the ability to create an ...
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Chess GUI recommendation for linux
I used http://www.pychess.org/download/ and https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/.
Linux chess applications are generally free and open source.
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Extract anonymized games out of a pgn
You can always copy the pure text from a PGN manually, but that only works for one game.
For more games I am not sure, and unfortunately most chess software is for windows.
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SCID vs ChessBase - play, analyse, visualization - ubuntu
try Lucas chess. It's free and works in windows and Linux using wine. It has a tutor option that is really visual and also many engines you can select based on your rating level
https://lucaschess....
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Is there a GUI software that exports chess diagrams for chess authors?
Chessbase products have to capability to export an image or using a chess diagram font as rtf to be pasted directly into word.
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Using a Linux UCI Engine with a GUI (eg. Fritz 15)
Mixing Windows and Linux for this (and this way) might not be the easiest way. Also think about future updates that can break your working solution. You already experienced this with InBetween.exe.
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Using a Linux UCI Engine with a GUI (eg. Fritz 15)
I think you can do it using this tool ChessBridge. There's also netChess, but the website is down, so use the mirror at Archive.org.
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Compiling asmFish on macOS
asmFish is NOT the same engine as Stockfish, so the answer by Dave is wrong. The difference is that asmFish is written in x86 Assembly (~20% faster), while Stockfish in C++.
Here is an issue I opened ...
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Why can't I put Stockfish in SCID?
The solution is:
This command right here, as linked: /home/yourusername/.scid4.7/Linux/stockfish_10_x64
It worked for me.
I went into a search and found "Stockfish." Then I went onto "copy link ...
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Other than Fairy-Max, is there a variant [fairy] chess engine that is compatible with XBoard?
add Fairy Stockfish to that list... a recent development
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