Jerry - Cross Platform Chess GUI

[dkl]

I am happy to announce the release of

Jerry 1.0 beta

available at:

http://asdfjkl.github.io/jerry/

Jerry is a simple chess GUI, currently build around the stockfish-engine. It’s main features are:

* play against the computer
* adjust strength levels to match your skill
* enter, edit and analyse games
* automatic game analysis
* read and save games in standard pgn format
* copy and paste FEN positions and pgn games from clipboard
* cross-platform: native look on Linux, OS X, and Windows

I hope that it can be useful for some enthusiasts - especially considering the rather limited amount of free and open-source choices for OS X and Linux.

Whereas I tried to take enough time to fix bugs and test, I am quite sure that at some point I overlooked things (in particular, I had no chance to test on Windows 64 bit and Linux 64 bit; only 32 bit variants).

Of course I am interested in feedback!

[AdminX]

Thanks Dominik,

Do you have any plans to add DGT Chessboard and Clock support to your GUI? I am analyzing a game with it now in a 64 bit Windows environment.

[Marek Soszynski]

Nice!

Works fine under Linux 64-bit.

[rcmaddox]

Seems to work under Windows 7 64.

I assume Stockfish uses only one core?

This could be a nice, lightweight GUI. I would suggest adding a clock and the ability to configure the UCI options.

[dkl]

thanks all for testing on Win64 and Linux!

Adding support for DGT Boards & Clocks of course is interesting. However in order to develop and test, there is no way without having a real (hardware) device. Unfortunately, right now I simply cannot afford a DGT board. Hence, a DGT interface is currently not at the top of my priority list, sorry.

[dkl]

I assume Stockfish uses only one core?

For simplicity, the 32bit version of stockfish is shipped. If you replace "stockfish.exe" in the engine subfolder with the 64bit stockfish, it should use all cores. This is e.g. already the case on Linux and OS X.

I would suggest adding a clock and the ability to configure the UCI options.

Adding other UCI engines, and setting UCI parameters will come in the next version. As for adding the clock: I had this in an earlier developer build, but I removed it since I wondered whether players really play timed games when facing a computer? What do you think?[/code]

[dkl]

I released a new version @

https://github.com/asdfjkl/jerry/releases/tag/v3.02

Maybe this is of interest for some of you...

Feedback is appreciated.

[styx]

I really like the simplicity of the GUI.

Just some things I discovered in a very short test:

1. It would be nice if the move list becomes bold, once the auto-analysis starts adding variants (leave the variants itself normal). Right now it is very hard to distinguish between main line and variants.

2. I don't know why but I failed to add the Arasan Chess Engine http://www.arasanchess.org/ to the engine list. I use Linux and never had any problem with this engine in other GUI's. Other Engines seem to work fine (I tested Komodo and Texel)

3. There seems to be a serious bug here: https://youtu.be/D4ogfD5ewuk

[dkl]

Thanks for your feedback. I will look into it asap!

[styx]

Of course I was talking about variations, not variants in my post. But I guess you got it