[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27687] [FR] fallback to GNU Chess if Fairymax not found

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #27687 (project xboard):

There are just to many different Chess engines nowadays to make that
feasible. GNU Chess is one of the least likely that people would want to use.
So should we make it try Phalanx or Crafty? Or perhaps Polyglot+Fruit or
Polyglot+Glaurung?

The problem is that XBoard is also useful without engine (for ICS play), and
thus no dependency will be listed for the package manager. So it will be run
by people that have no engine at all.

The only way I see that would solve this once and for all would be to
actually bundle XBoard with an engine. And in that case I would prefer to
bundle it with Fairy-Max, because it is tiny.

B.t.w., I think tht the old behavior _is_ preserved. XBoard does work in the
presence of a Chess binary. You just have to install the proper binary.

H.G. Muller

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