GUI for testing

[tcusr]

cutechess(-cli) appears to be the most used program but i can't find it in my repository (ubuntu) and i don't want to compile it because i would have to download a ton of Qt packages.
so my best option would be xboard with polyglot (i have a UCI engine), but xboard is really ugly on my sytem, resizing and some options don't work correctly and the UI in general is not really the best
so, what GUI do you guys use?

[Modern Times]

Banksia perhaps

https://banksiagui.com/

I have not used it myself.

[kranium]

https://github.com/FireFather/zentropy

[pedrojdm2021]

Arena chess just works. ( i use it ) and is available for both linux and windows.

http://www.playwitharena.de/

[KhepriChess]

I did this just recently, and you should be able to install it on Ubuntu without having to compile it. Take a look at these instructions if you haven't already: https://github.com/cutechess/cutechess/ ... -452622996

You basically download the package file from their releases section first, then run the apt-get install command in the directory where you've placed the file.

[JVMerlino]

cutechess(-cli) appears to be the most used program but i can't find it in my repository (ubuntu) and i don't want to compile it because i would have to download a ton of Qt packages.
so my best option would be xboard with polyglot (i have a UCI engine), but xboard is really ugly on my sytem, resizing and some options don't work correctly and the UI in general is not really the best
so, what GUI do you guys use?

I use the non-cli version of cutechess. Does everything I need it to do, although some of the important features can be a bit hard to find.

[tcusr]

i'll consider compiling cutechess-cli, i don't like running binaries off the internet
thanks everyone

[tcusr]

before giving up xboard i want learn how to use it, so sorry for the noob questions
1) i added stockfish like this: "Stockfish" -fcp polyglot -noini -ec ~/Stockfish/src/stockfish and when i start a tournament (right after pressing OK) xboard crashes, why?
2) is it possible to create a tournament with a TC less than a minute?
3) cutechess also gives the ELO difference after a tournament, i have not found this option in xboard so, i think, i have to run an external program to calculate it from the saved PGNs, right?
thanks

[tcusr]

i solved 1), i now use "Stockfish" -fcp path/to/stockfish -fUCI
i didn't know how to use polyglot and just noticed the fruit is defined like this in the list...

[mvanthoor]

cutechess(-cli) appears to be the most used program but i can't find it in my repository (ubuntu) and i don't want to compile it because i would have to download a ton of Qt packages.

On Debian Stable, I just installed the deb-file from the GitHub page and everything seems to work.
You can even install Lutris, create a Wine-prefix, and install CuteChess for Windows there. I use that to test the Windows-compile of my engine, and run it against engines of which I only have a Windows-executable. (Use the system Wine for this: there is a bug in some of the Wine versions installed by Lutris which makes some programs very slow; chess engines are affected by this.)