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Old 05-24-2009, 06:07 PM   #5
zatrigkiwtes
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Originally Posted by pwarren View Post
Hrm, this is turning out to be more tricky than it seemed.

GnuGo has been sort of ported: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ighlight=gnugo

And I was able to use his instructions to build the gnogo engine. The only problem is that the GUI part of it needs a bunch of libraries that haven't been ported to iliad.

A similar problem exists for the gnushogi program. it's based on Xaw, and not GTK+, so it will be very difficult to get it running.

I'll have a look at some other shogi and go engines and see what I can manage!

So, I'll have a look at other
I am sorry that this has proved to be frustrating. I found a couple of other shogi packages for Linux described at http://www.shogi.net/variants/variants.html. I have played the Shocky engine, and while it is not the equal of the freeware shogi powerhouse, Bonanza (not for Linux, I fear), it played a respectable game.

Do any of the entries at the following URL look possible to you? http://shogi.typepad.jp/eweblog/comp...ogi/index.html

Thanks!
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