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          (________)        JUPITER CHESS

Jupiter is an UCI-compatible chess engine for Linux.

You can use it with any User Interface that support UCI protocol, like:
- pychess (http://www.pychess.org/)
- scid (http://scid.sourceforge.net/)

Files

* **engine**: Engine source files
* **tests**: Engine tests source files
* **fics**: Script and files to play online
* config: Engine configuration file.

Build and run engine

make -C engine/
engine/jupiter

Build and run tests

make -C tests/
tests/jupitests

Configuration File

You can edit this file to change some options.

Logging Level

Log level can be DEBUG, INFO or ERROR. It's set to INFO by default.

LOG_LEVEL = INFO

Logging File

By default the engine will log to ./jupiter.log

LOG_FILE = jupiter.log

Play online on FICS

You can find jupiter on FICS as JupiterCallisto, so go and play some games against him.

Also, you can connect jupiter, or other chess engine using fics/callipsto.py script. fics/callipsto.py will connect to FICS as guest, and plays random games. Games are saved as .pgn files.

fics/callisto.py --help
usage: callisto.py [-h] [-u USER] [-p PASSWORD] [-e ENGINE]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -u USER, --user USER  FICS username
  -p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
                        FICS password
  -e ENGINE, --engine ENGINE
                        Engine binary file

maralonso/jupiter