I run Arena in Wine with no problems whatsoever.

It runs fine under Wine as well here, however, you do get a bit significant hit in speed -- though, some might not find that to be an issue.

I'm not sure what version of Linux you run or how your system may be configured, but I see no measurable ...

[quote="gigenieks"]I started to use Scid few days ago. Slowly learning it. It's a shame it doesn't have a big manual in ebook format (.pdf) Or is there??

#1 Issue:

You may want to check out this youtube tutorial on SCID:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwdkJg9jrIo

While not a manual, it is ...

OK, step by step:

1. Un7z the Stockfish_211_PA_GTB_Gran2c.7z file. Verify that there are files in the src directory.
2. Open a console window and navigate to the "src" directory in the folder you unpacked.
3. Type 'cd egtb'
4. Type 'make'
5. Type 'cd ..' (you're now back in src)
6. Type 'make ...

OK, step by step:

1. Un7z the Stockfish_211_PA_GTB_Gran2c.7z file. Verify that there are files in the src directory.
2. Open a console window and navigate to the "src" directory in the folder you unpacked.
3. Type 'cd egtb'
4. Type 'make'
5. Type 'cd ..' (you're now back in src)
6. Type 'make ...

OK, step by step:

1. Un7z the Stockfish_211_PA_GTB_Gran2c.7z file. Verify that there are files in the src directory.
2. Open a console window and navigate to the "src" directory in the folder you unpacked.
3. Type 'cd egtb'
4. Type 'make'
5. Type 'cd ..' (you're now back in src)
6. Type 'make ...

Things are almost there now with the fixed Makefile. However there is an issue with EGTB. I added 'USE EGTB' to my command line for the make command and I get errors about egtb/gtb-probe.h no found. I created symlinks in egtb directory to ../gtb-probe.h (and a couple others if memory serves ...

Things are almost there now with the fixed Makefile. However there is an issue with EGTB. I added 'USE EGTB' to my command line for the make command and I get errors about egtb/gtb-probe.h no found. I created symlinks in egtb directory to ../gtb-probe.h (and a couple others if memory serves ...

So how do I get rid of those extra bytes? When I delete the first character of the file in vim, it deletes the # in '# Stockfish' ...

I tried deleting that and re-adding the # and recompiling -- same error as before.

When I try to compile the source on Ubuntu 11.04 I get this error:

roy@ubuntu-vm1:~/chess/SF-2.1.1-PA-GTB$ make profile-build ARCH=x86-64
Makefile:1: *** missing separator. Stop.
roy@ubuntu-vm1:~/chess/SF-2.1.1-PA-GTB$

Any suggestions as to what is not quite right?

I downloaded the .7z file and ...

Golem is about 1600 ELO

Thx Lucena... will try it out if its google-able; if not I'll have to take it from you :)

I also ran a match vs GNUchess 5.07

Hey Royb - does GnuChess also came in UCI flavor and is it available?
Also the winboard version was not working correctly in Winman engine ...