How do I use GNU Chess with WinBoard?
Well, why would you want to? If you want a strong free engine, use Crafty, Glaurung, Fruit or Toga. If you wnt an engine that plays many variants, use Fairy-Max, Pulsar or Sjeng. But the procedure to install and run those is not any different than for GNU Chess. If you want to use a WinBoard-compatible chess engine that is not automatically installed with the download, you will have to download it yourself. Most chess engines are downloaded as a compressed archive (e.g. a .zip file), and on downloadig it, the decompression software on your Windows system is automatically invoked when you seected “Open” in the download dialog. You can then click “extract all files”, and you are prompted for a place to put the unpacked stuff. The place it proposes is usually no good, so browse to the folder in which you installed the winBoard download (where you see the Fairy-Max and WinBoard folders). When the archiv contained a single folder, (with files in it), unpack it there. If the archive containe
