Answers.Body: <p>The <b><a href="http://hgm.nubati.net/alien.html">XBoard Alien GUI</a></b> is reputedly better suited to playing chess variants than the standard XBoard is, but that's just an observation. There are many engines that play only a few variants.<br>
  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Here's a list of engines (other than Fairy-Max) that have been noted as playing a large selection of variants and working with XBoard (Linux environment being implicit):</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p><b><a href="http://samiam.org/chessv/">ChessV</a></b> (<i>plays over 50 variants</i>)</p></li>
  <li><p><b><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/dshawul/">Nebiyu Alien</a></b> (<i>a score of variants tested in homepage; many additional [user defined] .ini files available as a <a href="http://www.solidfiles.com/d/67f321a0a9/">collective package</a> or <a href="http://immortalchess.net/forum/showthread.php?t=12308">individually</a></i>)</p></li>
  <li><p><b><a href="http://www.lanternchess.com/pulsar/">Pulsar</a></b><br></p></li>
  <li><p><b><a href="http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/chess-">Sjaak II</a></b> (<i>Glebbeek's, not de Man's</i>)<br></p></li>
  <li><p><b><a href="http://www.chessbox.de/chess/SMIRF.html">SMIRF</a></b><br></p></li>
  </ul>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>add <a href="https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish/releases/tag/fairy_sf_14" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Fairy Stockfish</a> to that list... a recent development</p>
  
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Body: <p>Fairy-Max (which ships with the XBoard package) can play variant chess. Is there any other XBoard-compatible engine that also plays variant chess (and runs on Linux or *BSD)?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Sorry, I don't have idea what the question is about. Can you rephrase? Do you mean if fairymax can play anything other than the standard chess?
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Comments.Text: No, I was asking about an alternative to Fairymax.
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Comments.Text: This is easy. Xboard supports every chess engine that uses its protocol. Crafty can be used on xboard.
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Comments.Text: But I am only interested by chess variant engine. Crafty, as I know, only support standard chess. I’m wrong?
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Comments.Text: Now I understand what you're actually asking. I'll edit your answer. Please take a little more attention to your wording in the question next time.
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Comments.Text: “[fairy chess](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_chess)” is the standard name used by chess gamer to talk about a __kind__ of chess variant. I use the correct words.
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Title: Other than Fairy-Max, is there a variant [fairy] chess engine that is compatible with XBoard?
ThreadText: # Other than Fairy-Max, is there a variant [fairy] chess engine that is compatible with XBoard?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-05-21)
  
  Fairy-Max (which ships with the XBoard package) can play variant chess. Is there any other XBoard-compatible engine that also plays variant chess (and runs on Linux or \*BSD)?
  
  **Tags:** engines, software, chess-variants, linux
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Sorry, I don't have idea what the question is about. Can you rephrase? Do you mean if fairymax can play anything other than the standard chess?  
  > **username_0**: No, I was asking about an alternative to Fairymax.  
  > **username_1**: This is easy. Xboard supports every chess engine that uses its protocol. Crafty can be used on xboard.  
  > **username_0**: But I am only interested by chess variant engine. Crafty, as I know, only support standard chess. I’m wrong?  
  > **username_1**: Now I understand what you're actually asking. I'll edit your answer. Please take a little more attention to your wording in the question next time.  
  > **username_0**: “[fairy chess](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_chess)” is the standard name used by chess gamer to talk about a __kind__ of chess variant. I use the correct words.  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2016-06-29. Score: 7
  
  The **[XBoard Alien GUI](http://hgm.nubati.net/alien.html)** is reputedly better suited to playing chess variants than the standard XBoard is, but that's just an observation. There are many engines that play only a few variants.  
       Here's a list of engines (other than Fairy-Max) that have been noted as playing a large selection of variants and working with XBoard (Linux environment being implicit):
  
  * **[ChessV](http://samiam.org/chessv/)** (*plays over 50 variants*)
  * **[Nebiyu Alien](https://sites.google.com/site/dshawul/)** (*a score of variants tested in homepage; many additional [user defined] .ini files available as a [collective package](http://www.solidfiles.com/d/67f321a0a9/) or [individually](http://immortalchess.net/forum/showthread.php?t=12308)*)
  * **[Pulsar](http://www.lanternchess.com/pulsar/)**
  * **[Sjaak II](http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/chess-)** (*Glebbeek's, not de Man's*)
  * **[SMIRF](http://www.chessbox.de/chess/SMIRF.html)**
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2021-09-20. Score: 1
  
  add [Fairy Stockfish](https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish/releases/tag/fairy_sf_14) to that list... a recent development
  
  
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