I use fairymax all the time, since I'm not a great player, but it's challenging enough that it's still hard to beat. Unfortunately, it seemed to block indefinitely while talking to X-board. I was curious what was happening since I'm interested in chess engines. There is a large section on stream blocking, etc on the X-board site. I managed to fix the problem, and happy to report it played gnu-chess in a game on an ARM chromebook computer running the latest linux OS.
I use fairymax all the time, since I'm not a great player, but it's challenging enough that it's still hard to beat. Unfortunately, it seemed to block indefinitely while talking to X-board. I was curious what was happening since I'm interested in chess engines. There is a large section on stream blocking, etc on the X-board site. I managed to fix the problem, and happy to report it played gnu-chess in a game on an ARM chromebook computer running the latest linux OS.
I pasted the resulting code here:
https://pastebin.com/Fd4cNpRV