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Author Bug#380388: ITP: toga2 -- computer chess engine, calculates chess moves
Oliver Korff

2006-07-30, 1:24 am

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Oliver Korff <ok@xynyx.de>


* Package name : toga2
Version : 1.2.1.1
Upstream Author : Thomas Gaksch <toga2@gmx.net>
* URL : http://www.uciengines.de/UCI-Engines/TogaII/togaii.html
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C++
Description : computer chess engine, calculates chess moves

Advancement of the strong chess engine fruit, it is
even stronger, and will be further developed. As communication
protocol it uses the UCI (universal chess interface), so you
need an UCI capable frontend to play against it.
Ben Pfaff

2006-07-30, 7:30 am

Oliver Korff <ok@xynyx.de> writes:

> Advancement of the strong chess engine fruit, it is
> even stronger, and will be further developed.


Please work on the phrasing. It doesn't make much sense as
written. Perhaps "Advanced chess engine under active
development."?
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oliver

2006-07-30, 7:30 am

At Saturday 29 July 2006 22:15 wrote Henning Makholm:
> Scripsit Oliver Korff <ok@xynyx.de>
>
>
> We seem to have several such engines already. Could the description
> please say something that distinguishes this from the other ones?


In the short description? Difficult, I could mention a "chess strength" of
2700 ELO, but would have to describe ELO. And I will get a discussion about
how I get to this number.

What do you think?

>
> Would X% of Debian's other free chess engines not be a more relevant
> comparison?


You are right, its definetly the stongest engine in debian now.

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Adam Borowski

2006-07-30, 1:22 pm

On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 01:01:56PM +0200, oliver wrote:
> At Saturday 29 July 2006 22:15 wrote Henning Makholm:
>
> In the short description? Difficult, I could mention a "chess strength" of
> 2700 ELO, but would have to describe ELO. And I will get a discussion about
> how I get to this number.


I would say that for any literate enough person, the phrase "chess
strength of 2700 ELO" is self-descriptive. It includes a number and
an unit of measure -- for those who do not know that unit, it is
named "chess strength".

So, adding anything more would be excess wordage.

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Steinar H. Gunderson

2006-07-30, 1:22 pm

On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 05:55:59PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> So what we are obviousely lacking is a *nice* UI that enables
> people like my father to use this engine. Is anything out there
> that might be more convinient than xboard?


Perhaps one of these might be useful:

likevel:~> debtags grep 'game::board:chess && x11::application'
3dchess: game::board:chess, interface::3d, use::gameplaying, x11::application
eboard: game::board, game::board:chess, interface::x11, uitoolkit::gtk, use::gameplaying, x11::application
eboard-extras-pack1: game::board, game::board:chess, interface::x11, role::content:data, use::gameplaying, x11::application, x11::theme
gnuchess: game::board:chess, interface::text-mode, interface::x11, uitoolkit::ncurses, use::gameplaying, x11::application
xboard: game::board:chess, interface::x11, uitoolkit::athena, use::gameplaying, x11::application
xshogi: game::board, game::board:chess, interface::x11, uitoolkit::athena, use::gameplaying, x11::application
knights: game::board:chess, interface::x11, suite::kde, uitoolkit::qt, use::gameplaying, x11::application
scid: game::board, game::board:chess, interface::x11, uitoolkit::tk, use::gameplaying, x11::application

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oliver

2006-07-30, 7:20 pm

At Sunday 30 July 2006 17:55 wrote Andreas Tille:
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, oliver wrote:
>
> So what we are obviousely lacking is a *nice* UI that enables
> people like my father to use this engine. Is anything out there
> that might be more convinient than xboard?


Chess database program:

scid: Shane's Chess Information Database is a chess database application with
a graphical user interface.

knighs -- is a playing interface, its KDE but has nice graphics and you'll get
themes for it at:

http://oko00.hostsharing.net/debian/unofficial/

> If I missed something please make sure that the Recommends
> lists those interfaces.


Think it should, but I'll check.

Thanks,

Oliver
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