There is a new debian scorpio package of the famous chess engine scorpio. The engine is very high rated and the possibility to have OSS and free endgame tablebases make this engine special. 
scorpio itself is started by a script wrapper. This script installs the scorpio.ini and personality files to $HOME/.scorpio. You should adjust the number of processors setting to your needs in scorpio.ini.
Thanks to Daniel Shawul for his great work and for making this engine Open Source. I asked him once to use a common license like GPL. If he would do that, I’d love to add the package to the official distribution.
Its nice to hear, that someone cares…
great work!! I m a newbie in chess gaming and thanks to your site i m learning to improve my skills on my debian box. Thanks