2010-01-14
found out today that mac chess (gnu chess) can be run from the command line here:
/Applications/Chess.app/Contents/Resources/sjeng.ChessEngine
Sjeng version 11.2, Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Sjeng comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'warranty'
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type 'distribution'
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
8 | *R | *N | *B | *Q | *K | *B | *N | *R |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
7 | *P | *P | *P | *P | *P | *P | *P | *P |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
6 | | | | | | | | |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
5 | | | | | | | | |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
4 | | | | | | | | |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
3 | | | | | | | | |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
2 | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
1 | R | N | B | Q | K | B | N | R |
+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
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