Answers.Body: <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_%28chess%29">Fritz</a> published by ChessBase can do it for you.</p>
  
  <p>Let's see <a href="http://www.chesscentral.com/Making_Chess_Opening_Book_a/Play_Chess_Opening_a/136.htm">this tutorial</a> to force Fritz to play specific opening.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>You can do this with <a href="http://lucaschess.pythonanywhere.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">LucasChess</a>. And you can chose as opponent any engine you like or dozens of preconfigured opponents with various personalities.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: As far as I can tell (it's not very clear after a solid 2 minutes searching) this is for Windows only. Do you know if this is correct?
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Answers.Text: There have at least been attempts to port LucasChess to Linux. See there: http://lucaschess.blogspot.com/2015/05/version-904-playable-version-in-linux.html.  I don't know if current versions are available for Linux.  
  And it seems to run in Wine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJOSCJnjJ7c
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Body: <p>Is there a chess program that will play a specific opening against me?  The reason being is that I want to practice against the Ruy Lopez, for example and I want a computer to play up to Bb5.  Is there program that can do this, paid or free?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: It's not really an answer, but it seems to me that it would be trivial to set up a board position at `3. Bb5` and make the computer play it from there. A little more effort than forcing an opening book, but it should work.
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Comments.Text: @JonathanGarber That is how I do it with Crafty.
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Title: Chess program that will play an opening against me?
ThreadText: # Chess program that will play an opening against me?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2013-04-05)
  
  Is there a chess program that will play a specific opening against me? The reason being is that I want to practice against the Ruy Lopez, for example and I want a computer to play up to Bb5. Is there program that can do this, paid or free?
  
  **Tags:** opening, software
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: It's not really an answer, but it seems to me that it would be trivial to set up a board position at `3. Bb5` and make the computer play it from there. A little more effort than forcing an opening book, but it should work.  
  > **username_2**: @JonathanGarber That is how I do it with Crafty.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2013-04-05. Score: 6
  
  [Fritz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_%28chess%29) published by ChessBase can do it for you.
  
  Let's see [this tutorial](http://www.chesscentral.com/Making_Chess_Opening_Book_a/Play_Chess_Opening_a/136.htm) to force Fritz to play specific opening.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2019-03-09. Score: 1
  
  You can do this with [LucasChess](http://lucaschess.pythonanywhere.com/). And you can chose as opponent any engine you like or dozens of preconfigured opponents with various personalities.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_5**: As far as I can tell (it's not very clear after a solid 2 minutes searching) this is for Windows only. Do you know if this is correct?  
  > **username_4**: There have at least been attempts to port LucasChess to Linux. See there: http://lucaschess.blogspot.com/2015/05/version-904-playable-version-in-linux.html.  I don't know if current versions are available for Linux.   And it seems to run in Wine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJOSCJnjJ7c  
  
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