Bug 820796

Summary:	RFE: stockfish (a stronger GPL chess engine)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ling Li <liling>
Component:	gnuchess	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Gwyn Ciesla <gwync>
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Description Ling Li 2012-05-11 01:50:06 UTC

(I apologize if this has been discussed---I did a few Google search and didn't find relevant threads, though.)

stockfish is probably the most powerful open source chess engine and I recommend including it in Fedora.  It's easily compiled.  With the executable at /usr/bin, PyChess (which is already in Fedora) automatically finds it as an available engine.

Its website: http://www.stockfishchess.com/

An example spec file: http://www.openmamba.org/showfile.html?file=/pub/openmamba/devel-ercolinux/specs/stockfish.spec

Comparison with other engines: http://code.google.com/p/pychess/wiki/ChessEngines

I set the severity to "low" since I guessed that Chess/Games are not that important to Fedora (I could be wrong), but this one is quite simple to package so I hope it will be included.

Comment 1 Dhiru Kholia 2013-09-10 08:24:24 UTC

Review Request: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006197

Comment 2 Gwyn Ciesla 2015-01-08 19:17:21 UTC

Given that this is a separate package not conflicting with gnuchess in any way, I'm closing this.  A new review can be submitted in the future.