FRUIT(6)

📦 version 2.1.dfsg, in fedora 43, fedora 44, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

✨ FRUIT ✨

okay bestie so you found fruit, which lives in section 6 of the manual (games & screensavers, iconic) and is literally a chess engine 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

fruit — Fruit is a UCI-only chess engine. no cap, that's the whole thing.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

fruit

that's it. that's the vibe.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this manual page documents briefly the fruit program. briefly!! we're keeping it cute.

Fruit is a UCI-only chess engine. and this distribution? it comes up with an opening book. like, it shows up with accessories. main character energy fr fr 📖✨

here's the tea on how you actually use it: Fruit and other UCI engines can be used with XBoard or WinBoard (or other xboard-compatible interfaces) with the help of PolyGlot (that's the UCI-to-xboard adapter, your little translator bestie 🫶). Another well known frontend is scid, which has a UCI capable interface.

so like, Fruit doesn't have a face of its own. it needs a friend to hold the camera. very demure, very mindful. 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

okay so warning bestie: these program does NOT follow the usual GNU command line syntax. 🚨 not like other girls. instead, it can be fed with options with a personal config file which can be read by the polyglot helper software.

and the author himself says, and I quote:

"You are advised to skip this section unless you are completely crazy about computer chess."

literally iconic. he said don't read this unless you're unhinged about chess and honestly? respect. 🙈

For a complete description of these UCI commands, see the readme files.

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

  • Further documentation in /usr/share/doc/fruit/readme.txt

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

fruit was written by Fabien Letouzey <fabien_letouzey@hotmail.com>. The Sourcecode including binaries for several architectures can be found at: http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/Fruit.html

This manual page was written by Oliver Korff <ok@xynyx.de>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). slay, Oliver. 🫡

and that's the whole page bestie 💖 this one's from June 30, 2005, so it's giving vintage, it's giving retro, and it's sitting in section 6 of the manual — FRUIT(6), periodt. ✨🍓🧚

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