Hi Ludo, Thank you for reviewing! Ludovic Courtès writes: > Incidentally, the following still breaks on the first move: > > $ guix environment --ad-hoc xboard -- xboard > […] > xboard: Error writing to first chess program: Broken pipe > > At first sight the reason may be that it doesn’t find ‘fairymax’ (what’s > that?) in $PATH. I’m sure I’m missing something obvious, but I wonder > if we could make it work out of the box. > > Thoughts? > Yes, I think that is https://issues.guix.gnu.org/45236 fairymax is a (simple) chessengine. I plan to fix this issue (also via the xboard.conf), so that gnuchess gets the default configured engine, after this one here is merged... -- Wenn Du denkst, Abenteuer sind gefährlich, dann versuch´s doch mal mit Routine. Die ist tödlich. - Paulo Coelho