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Ubuntu ARM64 for chess?

Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 8:40 am
by AlexChess
Hi!
I'm interested in playing engine tournaments with Ubuntu ARM, So I'm looking for chess IDEs like Winboard/xboard, Cutechess, BanksiaGui & Arena compiling them by myself (if open source) together with all best engines.

Until now I have only Pychess working...

Re: Ubuntu ARM64 for chess?

Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 5:20 pm
by Dann Corbit
I guess that xboard will compile easily enough

Re: Ubuntu ARM64 for chess?

Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 6:06 am
by jshriver
AlexChess wrote: Mon Apr 05, 2021 8:40 am Hi!
I'm interested in playing engine tournaments with Ubuntu ARM, So I'm looking for chess IDEs like Winboard/xboard, Cutechess, BanksiaGui & Arena compiling them by myself (if open source) together with all best engines.

Until now I have only Pychess working...
Checkout this thread here:

http://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.p ... aarch64_Pi

Pi4Chess has done an amazing job making builds and I've added a few myself.

He has a bigger collection available, but here is an earlier one I'm mirroring.

https://chess.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspac ... 020.tar.gz

Re: Ubuntu ARM64 for chess?

Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 8:39 am
by AlexChess
jshriver wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 6:06 am
AlexChess wrote: Mon Apr 05, 2021 8:40 am Hi!
I'm interested in playing engine tournaments with Ubuntu ARM, So I'm looking for chess IDEs like Winboard/xboard, Cutechess, BanksiaGui & Arena compiling them by myself (if open source) together with all best engines.

Until now I have only Pychess working...
Checkout this thread here:

http://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.p ... aarch64_Pi

Pi4Chess has done an amazing job making builds and I've added a few myself.

He has a bigger collection available, but here is an earlier one I'm mirroring.

https://chess.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspac ... 020.tar.gz
Thank you!

Re: Ubuntu ARM64 for chess?

Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 12:15 pm
by lucasart
AlexChess wrote: Mon Apr 05, 2021 8:40 am Hi!
I'm interested in playing engine tournaments with Ubuntu ARM, So I'm looking for chess IDEs like Winboard/xboard, Cutechess, BanksiaGui & Arena compiling them by myself (if open source) together with all best engines.

Until now I have only Pychess working...
c-chess-cli should work: https://github.com/lucasart/c-chess-cli
I've never tried Linux on ARM, but I've tested c-chess-cli on Android (using Termux) and MacOS (automated with github CI).

Re: Ubuntu ARM64 for chess?

Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 1:07 pm
by AlexChess
lucasart wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 12:15 pm
AlexChess wrote: Mon Apr 05, 2021 8:40 am Hi!
I'm interested in playing engine tournaments with Ubuntu ARM, So I'm looking for chess IDEs like Winboard/xboard, Cutechess, BanksiaGui & Arena compiling them by myself (if open source) together with all best engines.

Until now I have only Pychess working...
c-chess-cli should work: https://github.com/lucasart/c-chess-cli
I've never tried Linux on ARM, but I've tested c-chess-cli on Android (using Termux) and MacOS (automated with github CI).
Thank you, but I'm looking for a GUI, too.

Re: Ubuntu ARM64 for chess?

Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 1:54 pm
by jshriver
AlexChess wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 1:07 pm
Thank you, but I'm looking for a GUI, too.
cutechess and xboard work great under ubuntu arm. I run Ubuntu on most of my boxes and really havent noticed any difference between a a normal PC and my Pi4 w/ 8gigs ram.

Re: Ubuntu ARM64 for chess?

Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 6:13 pm
by AlexChess
Hi!
Have you a link for cutechess and cutechess-cli ARM64 binaries? I've fount it here, but it is expired.
I'll tell you if it works also on Ubuntu ARM64 under Parallels Desktop M1 :)

Thanks!
AlexChess

Re: Ubuntu ARM64 for chess?

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 1:34 am
by amanjpro
AlexChess wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 6:13 pm Hi!
Have you a link for cutechess and cutechess-cli ARM64 binaries? I've fount it here, but it is expired.
I'll tell you if it works also on Ubuntu ARM64 under Parallels Desktop M1 :)

Thanks!
AlexChess
You can download binaries here: https://github.com/cutechess/cutechess/ ... /tag/1.2.0

And if your architecture/OS is not provided, then building it from the source is super simple:

https://github.com/cutechess/cutechess# ... rom-source

Re: Ubuntu ARM64 for chess?

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 6:37 am
by lucasart
AlexChess wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 6:13 pm Hi!
Have you a link for cutechess and cutechess-cli ARM64 binaries? I've fount it here, but it is expired.
I'll tell you if it works also on Ubuntu ARM64 under Parallels Desktop M1 :)

Thanks!
AlexChess
I thought you wanted to compile by yourself. Are you having issues compiling Cutechess or Banksia ? The hardest part is to install Qt dependencies. Otherwise, I can't see why the platform (ARM instead of amd64) would make a difference.