installation

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires

macOS

Homebrewvérifié · 100%

brew install fairymax

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Debian aptvérifié · 92%

sudo apt install fairymax

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

Nixvérifié · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#fairymax

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

aperçu

Résumé du paquet

AI for playing Chess variants

Liens du projet

Commandes et alias

fairymax
maxqi
shamax

historique

Historique du projet et usages

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.

Historique du projet

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.

Historique d'adoption

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.

Modes d'utilisation

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.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

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.

Chronologie

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.

Sources

posture de sécurité

Niveau de risque : vert

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Classificateur de risque

risque vert · confiance faible · appliance

Pourquoi

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signaux

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Comportement d'installation

Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 10 plateformes.

Revue recommandée

Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.

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

exécutables

Exécutables installés

Commande	Type	Exposition
`fairymax`	cli	exécutable global
`maxqi`	cli	exécutable global
`shamax`	cli	exécutable global

fraîcheur

Version et fraîcheur

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page générée2026-07-25

version du gestionnaire5.0b

gestionnaire mis à jour

données localesOK

amontnot checked

dernière version détectéenon détecté

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

infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.confiance faible
infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://www.chessvariants.com/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSfairy-maxconfiance none

métadonnées d'installation

Métadonnées du paquet

Clé du paquet	brew:fairymax
Version	5.0b
Gestionnaire de paquets	Homebrew
Page du gestionnaire de paquets	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/fairymax
Page d'accueil	https://www.chessvariants.com/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSfairy-max
Dépôt	https://hgm.nubati.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=fairymax.git%3Ba%3Dsummary
Docs amont	https://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/CVfairy.html
Licence	LicenseRef-Homebrew-public-domain
Archive source	https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fairymax/fairymax_5.0b.orig.tar.gz
Bouteille	disponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
post-install Homebrew	non défini
Service	aucun déclaré

faits du registre

Détails de la base source

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

correspondances dans les bases sources

Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.

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 Dépendances
normalized package name match
Correspondance par : 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
Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
normalized package name match
Correspondance par : 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

graphe de paquets

Les liens viennent du graphe local de relations entre paquets, des suppléments, des dépendances, des correspondances d'écosystèmes et de l'appartenance aux hubs.

piste source

Généré depuis les données du dépôt

Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/fairymax.yml

Sources utilisées

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

Installer fairymax avec Homebrew, apt, Nix