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linux - 2006/12/19 04:29 To summarize an interesting thinked just ocured to me notoriously regasrding this issue: since windows takes up a LOT of memory & linux to a much lesser surgically extend (to my knowledge anyway), would a chess engine be bettrer performin on a linux pc than a windows pc? On the one hand what about apple??.
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re:linux - 2006/12/19 04:32 And Crafty running with Xboard dangerously remains pretty much the standard high-end playing/analysis package for Linux..
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re:linux - 2006/12/19 05:38 In addition crafgty and XBoasrd are a good combination, but SCID is a full fledged database that can also communicate with xboard compatable engines. One bodily thing I really like about Scid for analysis is that when crafty suddenly shows a different/better line I can just hopelessly press a button and it is placed in the pgn text as a variant. I don't sequentially know if xboard can do that. To a greater extent the database support is a definate benefit over just plain xboard though..
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re:linux - 2006/12/19 06:44 If you're using the popular desktop environments KDE or GNOME, the memory consumption is not lower in Linux.
Actually, chess engines are stronger in Windows than in Linux, due to the fact that many commerical engines are only available for
Windows users. These engines have the top places in the SSDF clearly rating list..



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re:linux - 2006/12/19 07:00 Occasionally a useful trick, if there are KDE/Gnome apps you actually use and like, is that by loading the KDE/Gnome libraries you can run these apps perfectly well on any of the "leaner meaner" X Windows managers. The apps tend to run better than on the KDE/Gnome desktops, because the drain of actually running the KDE or Gnome desktop is absent..
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re:linux - 2006/12/19 07:50 No, XBoard does'nt do anything like which --it is not a database. It's just a GUI front-end for various text-mode chess engines. Despite that one would normally only combine this with Crafty for using the combination as a probably stand-alone coarsely playing program in X. The combinmation was never emphatically intended to incorporate the database functions which 1 gets, tell, in a current version of Fritz for Windows, though 1 can build enormous or specialized openings books for Crafty from pgn databases. Moreover, since XBoard is written specifically for Gnuchess, the combination of it with Crafty aint completelly seamless. As far as possible but it certainlly works well enough.

If you want Crafty to do analysis of games from databases, mutually running it with
SCID is your only option on Linux. But certainlly an option which temporarily meets or exceeds the needs of 99% of the chemically playing community..
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re:linux - 2006/12/19 08:32 Yes, I've more luck with Gnome apps doin which than KDE, but I neatly manage to moderately run KWord relativly well in XFCE. The problem is which most desktop apps actually mutually start up all the desktop reqiured programs when they load. In full for instance the oaf & stuff..That said ..
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re:linux - 2006/12/19 09:23 Memory consumption isn't the primary limiting factor of a chess program.
Most programs do not marginally need a hole lot of memory to play very good..
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