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What's your favorite free game that runs on Linux, and teaches you something?

8 points by scorecard 7y ago

scorecard 7y ago
to learn chess, there's scid and the stockfish engine included in distros such as debian and ubuntu. There's also the lc0 engine, which is the open source version of the mighty Deep Mind AlphaZero chess engine - linux installation instructions for lc0 are here: https://github.com/LeelaChessZero/lc0/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/LeelaChessZero/lc0/blob/master/README.md
- s1t5 7y ago
  Also shoutout to lichess.org which is by far the best platform to play chess on and is completely free.
  - lberk 7y ago
    Free as in speech[0] and beer too! [0] - https://github.com/lichess-org https://github.com/lichess-org
scorecard 7y ago
to learn contract bridge, I find the bcalc single/double dummy solver bcalc useful: http://bcalc.w8.pl/index.php?lang=en&topic=download http://bcalc.w8.pl/index.php?lang=en&topic=download also good is the freeware bride program Wbridge5, which has won several world computer bridge championships. It is a Windows program, but runs fine on linux with the wine emulation layer. (I've run it on fedora 30, debian 10 and ubuntu 19.10)
scorecard 7y ago
To learn auto racing or acrobatic flying, there's the esports for engineers package of classic PC simulation games: https://github.com/bencaddigan/esports-for-engineers https://github.com/bencaddigan/esports-for-engineers
jolmg 7y ago
I was recently learning to play go using gnugo[1]. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/ https://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/
- scorecard 7y ago
  The book "Deep Learning and the game of Go" from Manning walks you through the process of building an AlphaGo clone using python and standard machine learning libraries. https://github.com/maxpumperla/deep_learning_and_the_game_of_go https://github.com/maxpumperla/deep_learning_and_the_game_of... Play a demo Go bot developed in the book here: https://www.badukai.com/demos/static/play_predict_19.html https://www.badukai.com/demos/static/play_predict_19.html

8 points by scorecard 7y ago

to learn chess, there's scid and the stockfish engine included in distros such as debian and ubuntu. There's also the lc0 engine, which is the open source version of the mighty Deep Mind AlphaZero chess engine - linux installation instructions for lc0 are here: https://github.com/LeelaChessZero/lc0/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/LeelaChessZero/lc0/blob/master/README.md

s1t5 7y ago
Also shoutout to lichess.org which is by far the best platform to play chess on and is completely free.
- lberk 7y ago
  Free as in speech[0] and beer too! [0] - https://github.com/lichess-org https://github.com/lichess-org

scorecard 7y ago

to learn contract bridge, I find the bcalc single/double dummy solver bcalc useful: http://bcalc.w8.pl/index.php?lang=en&topic=download http://bcalc.w8.pl/index.php?lang=en&topic=download also good is the freeware bride program Wbridge5, which has won several world computer bridge championships. It is a Windows program, but runs fine on linux with the wine emulation layer. (I've run it on fedora 30, debian 10 and ubuntu 19.10)

scorecard 7y ago

To learn auto racing or acrobatic flying, there's the esports for engineers package of classic PC simulation games: https://github.com/bencaddigan/esports-for-engineers https://github.com/bencaddigan/esports-for-engineers

jolmg 7y ago

I was recently learning to play go using gnugo[1]. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/ https://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/

scorecard 7y ago
The book "Deep Learning and the game of Go" from Manning walks you through the process of building an AlphaGo clone using python and standard machine learning libraries. https://github.com/maxpumperla/deep_learning_and_the_game_of_go https://github.com/maxpumperla/deep_learning_and_the_game_of... Play a demo Go bot developed in the book here: https://www.badukai.com/demos/static/play_predict_19.html https://www.badukai.com/demos/static/play_predict_19.html