Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install fairymax

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Debian aptverifiziert · 92%

sudo apt install fairymax

Debian stable package indexes · fairymax · Quelle: deb.debian.org

Nixverifiziert · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#fairymax

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/fa/fairymax/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

AI for playing Chess variants

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

fairymax
maxqi
shamax

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Fairy-Max is H.G. Muller's free, open-source chess-variant engine. It is derived from micro-Max and replaces fixed move tables with definitions loaded from fmax.ini, making it useful for experimenting with fairy pieces and variant rule sets.

Projektgeschichte

The project was created to empirically evaluate fairy pieces by letting them play in checkmating chess games against orthodox pieces. Its design keeps the engine textual and protocol-oriented rather than graphical: Fairy-Max communicates through the WinBoard protocol and expects a GUI such as WinBoard or XBoard to handle display and game interaction.

Fairy-Max also produced or shipped alongside specialized variants such as ShaMax for Shatranj-like behavior and MaxQi for Xiangqi-specific constraints, reflecting the same small-engine approach applied to variants that do not fit the generic fmax.ini model.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The official documentation says Fairy-Max became included in the standard WinBoard install as a ready-to-run engine. In package-manager culture it is notable because a small, configurable chess engine can be installed as a command-line program while still serving GUI users through the long-running WinBoard/XBoard engine ecosystem.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users edit fmax.ini to define piece moves, board sizes, and variant setups, then run Fairy-Max as a WinBoard-compatible engine. The same package commonly exposes related binaries such as fairymax, maxqi, and shamax for the generic engine and dedicated variant engines.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Fairy-Max is the sort of package that rewards distribution packaging: it is small, old-school, text-configurable, and useful only when installed together with the right data files and GUI protocol expectations. The fmax.ini file is part of the program's behavior, not just optional sample configuration.

Zeitleiste

Undated: H.G. Muller creates Fairy-Max as a chess-variant engine derived from micro-Max.
Undated: Fairy-Max is included with the standard WinBoard install as a ready-to-run engine.
Undated: Dedicated variants such as ShaMax and MaxQi are distributed with the Fairy-Max downloads.

Related projects

Fairy-Max is closely related to micro-Max, WinBoard/XBoard, ShaMax, MaxQi, and other WinBoard-compatible chess-variant engines.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: grün

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Risikoklassifikator

grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance

Warum

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Signale

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 10 Plattformziele verfügbar.

Empfohlene Prüfung

Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: fmax.ini

Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit
`fairymax`	cli	globales Executable
`maxqi`	cli	globales Executable
`shamax`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.

Seite generiert2026-07-25

Manager-Version5.0b

Manager aktualisiert

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamnot checked

neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt

https://www.chessvariants.com/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSfairy-max

InfoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.niedrig Konfidenz
InfoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://www.chessvariants.com/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSfairy-maxnone Konfidenz

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:fairymax
Version	5.0b
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/fairymax
Homepage	https://www.chessvariants.com/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSfairy-max
Repository	https://hgm.nubati.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=fairymax.git%3Ba%3Dsummary
Upstream-Dokumentation	https://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/CVfairy.html
Lizenz	LicenseRef-Homebrew-public-domain
Quellarchiv	https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fairymax/fairymax_5.0b.orig.tar.gz
Bottle	verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	fairymax
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Debian apt95%

fairymax 5.0b-2

xboard compatible chess and chess-variant engine

https://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/CVfairy.html

sudo apt install fairymax

Section: games
Architecture: amd64
1 Abhängigkeiten
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Fairymax

Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: fairymax from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

Nix95%

fairymax

nix profile install nixpkgs#fairymax

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Fairymax

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/fa/fairymax/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

Ubuntu apt95%

fairymax 5.0b-1build1

xboard compatible chess and chess-variant engine

http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/CVfairy.html

sudo apt install fairymax

Section: universe/games
Architecture: amd64
1 Abhängigkeiten
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Fairymax

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: fairymax from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

Paketgraph

Links stammen aus dem lokalen Paketbeziehungsgraph, Ergänzungen, Abhängigkeitskanten, Ecosystem-Matches und Paket-Hub-Mitgliedschaft.

Quellspur

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/fairymax.yml

Verwendete Quellen

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated configuration and credential file locations
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

fairymax mit Homebrew, apt, Nix installieren