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Subject: Re: New winboard engine released !!!

Author: Carlos del Cacho

Date: 13:37:01 09/18/00

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On September 18, 2000 at 16:23:52, Thomas Mayer wrote:

>Hi Pete,
>
>>>Okay, there it is the first public version of Pepito. No readme file distributed
>>>at the moment, just the info on the web page. I'd like to know what you think
>>>about it, I'm ready to get savaged. LOL.
>>>
>>>Carlos
>>>Pepito's homepage: http://www.crosswinds.net/~pepitochess
>>
>>More specifically, the Windows version needs the cygwin1.dll file, not
>>cygwin.dll.
>>
>>It does not seem to be seeing it's opening book, I've tried starting games with
>>both e4 and d4, and in both cases it starts searching right away.  Probably a
>>casualty of running a windows version compiled with cygwin.
>>
>>I have not played any games against it yet.
>>
>>How would I tell it how to find the tablebases?  Should I add
>>
>>\"Pepito -EGTB_PATH c:\\tablebse \" /fd=d:\\pepito
>>
>>to the command line in winboard.ini?  Same question, but about hashtable sizes.
>>
>Not tested it either... But according to the homepage, the path for the
>endgametablebases should be in your autoexec.bat... like:
>SET EGTB_PATH=C:\TABLEBASE
>
>and also according to the homepage: Hashtables are fixed to 8 MB
>
>Greets, Thomas

That's right. I'm going to download it myself to see what's the problem with the
book.



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