To use chess-engines that are only available as Windows binaries you need to have installed the "wine" package too.
How it is done
Download "polyglot"
Then put polyglot into a folder of your choice.
e.g. /home/username/chessengines/polyglot
Start SCID and open the engine dialog window. Click to install a new engine and fill in the blanks as shown in the picture
Create the fruit_221.ini file with a common text editor and put it into the same folder where you installed polyglot. For fruit 2.2.1 it might look like this:
[PolyGlot]
EngineName = Fruit_221
EngineDir = /home/mick/chessengines/fruit_221
EngineCommand = ./fruit_221
Log = false # set to true for bug reports
LogFile = fruit_221.log
Resign = true
ResignMoves = 1 # 1 is safe for Fruit
[Engine]
# standard UCI options
Hash = 256 # in MB
NalimovPath = /home/mick/Nalimov-TB # *** EGTB path here ***
NalimovCache = 16 # in MB
OwnBook = false # false for no book (e.g. Nunn-like matches)
# Fruit-specific options follow below
Press OK and everything should work just fine.
If you want to get the Windows binary of a UCI-engine to run with SCID, you simply add the wine command in the ini-file.
Start SCID and open the engine dialog window. Click to install a new engine and fill in the blanks as shown in the picture.
Create the spike.ini file with a common text editor and put it into the same folder where you installed polyglot. For spike 1.1 it might look like this:
[PolyGlot]
EngineName = Spike1.1
EngineDir = /home/mick/chessengines/Spike1.1
EngineCommand = wine Spike11.exe
Log = false
LogFile = spike.log
[Engine]
InitString = BookOff
Hash = 256
Have a look at the EngineCommand line: Here you put the "wine" command just before the name of the Windows UCI-engine binary.
That's it. Press OK and everything should be working just fine.
Script for engine-tournaments with Xboard
Xboard cannot perform engine-tournaments by itself. It needs a little help. Use the following script to do an engine-tournament with Xboard.
#!/bin/bash
DISPLAY=:0.0
export DISPLAY
# set board size for display
XBSZ=Big
XBEngines=4
XBTC=10
XBMP=40
XBMG=3
echo A tournament with $XBEngines engines will be started
echo play blitz in $XBTC minutes per $XBMP moves, $XBMG matches, no incremental time, and autoquit
# list of engines
XBP[1]=/home/mick/chessengines/polyglot
XBS[1]="./polyglot spike.ini"
XBA[1]=1
XBP[2]=/home/mick/chessengines/polyglot
XBS[2]="./polyglot fruit_221.ini"
XBA[2]=1
XBP[3]=/home/mick/chessengines/polyglot
XBS[3]="./polyglot shredder9.ini"
XBA[3]=1
XBP[4]=/home/mick/chessengines/zappa_11
XBS[4]="./zappa xboard"
XBA[4]=1
# tournament board
for ((i=1; i<=XBEngines; i++))
do
if [ ${XBA[$i]} -eq 1 ]; then
echo .
for ((j=$i+1; j<=XBEngines; j++))
do
if [ ${XBA[$j]} -eq 1 ]; then
xboard -tc $XBTC -mps $XBMP -mg $XBMG -size $XBSZ -sgf /home/mick/chessengines/tourney.pgn -xexit \
-fd ${XBP[$i]} -fcp "${XBS[$i]}" -sd ${XBP[$j]} -scp "${XBS[$j]}"
fi
done
fi
done
echo Tournament finished
As you can see it is easy to include all the UCI-engines via polyglot, it doesn't even matter if it is a Linux or Windows binary. Of course native Xboard engines - like Zappa in the example above - work too. Paths to the opening books are set in the ini-files. The script saves (appends) the finished games to the tourney.pgn files. You can import this pgn-file into SCID and review the games or create a crosstable which might look something like this:
Computer chess game
linux, 2006.05.01 - 2006.05.02
Score Frui Spik Toga Shre Zapp
------------------------------------------------------------
1: Fruit_221 12.0 / 16 XXXX =1=1 10== 1110 1111
2: Spike1.1 10.5 / 16 =0=0 XXXX =1=1 1=11 =11=
3: Toga_II-1.2beta2a 8.5 / 16 01== =0=0 XXXX =101 11==
4: Shredder9 7.0 / 16 0001 0=00 =010 XXXX 1111
5: Zappa 1.1 2.0 / 16 0000 =00= 00== 0000 XXXX
------------------------------------------------------------
40 games: +18 =12 -10
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