games-board/gnuchess-5.07 is missing an opening book, which makes it play much worse than it can. Just observe how much time it takes for it to make even the first move. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start gnuchess 2. make a first move, observe that it takes long time for gnuchess to reply 3. observe that there is no much variation in it's game Actual Results: gnuchess plays a boring game:) Expected Results: gnuchess picks one of the common openings at random I think it's fair to not include a large opening book with gnuchess package because it takes long time to download, but how about a different package? I've made a local one, called it gnuchess-book, here is my lame ebuild file for it: gnuchess-book-1.01.ebuild =============== inherit games DESCRIPTION="Opening book for gnuchess" HOMEPAGE="http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/chess.html" SRC_URI="mirror://gnu/chess/${P}.pgn.gz" KEYWORDS="x86 ppc sparc alpha" LICENSE="GPL-2" SLOT="0" DEPEND="gnuchess" src_compile() { cd ${WORKDIR} echo -e 'book add gnuchess-book-1.01.pgn\nquit\n' | /usr/games/bin/gnuchess } src_install () { install -D -g games -o games ${WORKDIR}/book.dat ${D}/usr/share/games/gnuchess/book.dat } =============== Don't laugh, it's my first ebuild:) The archived book can be found on any of the gnu mirrors like ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/archives/gnu/prep/chess/book_1.01.pgn.gz In the ebuild I've renamed it to gnuchess-book-1.01.pgn.gz Here is the 'files/digest-gnuchess-book-1.01' file: ========= MD5 7aa8719681af962387b689969a34c058 gnuchess-book-1.01.pgn.gz 26070544 =========
i cleaned up the ebuild a bit and added to portage ... i used the 1.00 version cause i couldnt see to find 1.01 on gnu servers
