Overview
The Gullydeckel chess playing program allows you to play a game of
chess against a not too strong opponent. It has been written by Martin Borriss and is available free of
charge on the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
You
can use Gullydeckel with Linux and Windows. Most people integrate
Gullydeckel with a graphical chess board such as WinBoard. Other
interfaces are quite possible (Fritz 8, Arena, or Chessbase).
Documentation
You can find some brief general
information (README), build
information, Author information and
licensing (also the file named GPL included in the distribution ). Naturally, I maintain a
collection of BUGS and a TODO list. You may want to build
your own book. If you have Gullydeckel itself available,
you can get some brief information by typing "gully2 -h". You may also
use the built-in 'help' command in interactive mode.
Finally, if
you encounter problems, you may look at the logfile (gully.log)
created by Gullydeckel.
Download!
The current release 2.16pl1_fixed incorporates a patch improving pondering
behaviour which has previously led to problems under Win32/Win64
(Thanks to Jim Ablett, Olivier Deville and Andrew Fan!).
- Program sources (ANSI C) and documentation are here as [gzipped tarball] or windows-like [zip].It should be ready to make and go for both Linux and
Win32.
- Alternatively, there is a current Linux binary (about 115 KByte size) and the
Windows binary (about 200 kB).
- An opening book (about 330 Kbyte compressed) in [zip] or [uncompressed], compiled with Gully
itself. A small [Textfile] describing this book.
- For the Win32 platform you may now use Gullydeckel as
chessbase analysis engine. This textfile tells you how. Here is the
complete package [ZIP] (about 190
kB).
Tournaments
I would like to hear about your experiences with Gully (while I may
write in my blog about
Gully).
Here are pointers to tournaments in which Gullydeckel
participates:
- Leo Dijksmans Winboard
tourney where Gully 2.15pl10 regularily participates.
- Olivier Deville's ChessWar
tournaments
Martin
Borriss, Jan 15 2007 .