Fairy-Max (which ships with the XBoard package) can play variant chess. Is there any other XBoard-compatible engine that also plays variant chess (and runs on Linux or *BSD)?
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Sorry, I don't have idea what the question is about. Can you rephrase? Do you mean if fairymax can play anything other than the standard chess? – ABCD May 21 '15 at 23:46
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No, I was asking about an alternative to Fairymax. – fauve May 22 '15 at 00:42
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This is easy. Xboard supports every chess engine that uses its protocol. Crafty can be used on xboard. – ABCD May 22 '15 at 00:46
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But I am only interested by chess variant engine. Crafty, as I know, only support standard chess. I’m wrong? – fauve May 22 '15 at 02:40
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Now I understand what you're actually asking. I'll edit your answer. Please take a little more attention to your wording in the question next time. – ABCD May 22 '15 at 02:48
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2“[fairy chess](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_chess)” is the standard name used by chess gamer to talk about a __kind__ of chess variant. I use the correct words. – fauve Jul 04 '16 at 05:45
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The XBoard Alien GUI is reputedly better suited to playing chess variants than the standard XBoard is, but that's just an observation. There are many engines that play only a few variants.
Here's a list of engines (other than Fairy-Max) that have been noted as playing a large selection of variants and working with XBoard (Linux environment being implicit):
ChessV (plays over 50 variants)
Nebiyu Alien (a score of variants tested in homepage; many additional [user defined] .ini files available as a collective package or individually)
Sjaak II (Glebbeek's, not de Man's)
Charles Rockafellor
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