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Subject: Re: Winboard.ini example

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 13:50:09 08/09/99

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On August 09, 1999 at 10:45:25, Pete Galati wrote:

>On August 09, 1999 at 09:21:20, Robert Pope wrote:
>
>>On August 09, 1999 at 00:47:32, Pete Galati wrote:
>>
>>>On August 08, 1999 at 23:11:21, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote:
>>>
>>>>Could someone post here a good example of winboard.ini file with many
>>>>engines?(as many as possible). Some of the engines I would like to see working
>>>>with my Winboard 4.0.2 do not work.
>>>>Particularly I'd like to see: DerBringer, Gromit, The Crazy Bishop, Exchess,
>>>>Rival, Arasan 51a, Cilian, Fortress, LambChop, Little Goliath, Phalanx,
>>>>Inmichess, SSEChess...
>>>>Is Diogenes Winboard compatible?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>A. Ponti
>>>
>>>I just threw a bunch out again, I no longer have Rival, Arasan, or SSE. But for
>>>an example from someone who knows this stuff much better than most of us, see
>>>Frank Quinsinsky's site at this paticular branch of it:
>>>http://members.xoom.com/VolkerPi/schach/uebersicht.htm  and download a file
>>>called config.zip because it has examples of all this stuff that I wish I had
>>>months ago. Good examples. What I have is below. A very good program that you're
>>>missing is Zchess, if you're interested go to:
>>>http://myweb.worldnet.net/~fzibi/zchess.htm  & also get his bigger book version
>>>(it's not that big)
>>>
>>>Pete
>>>
>>>/firstChessProgramNames="wCrafty-16_6 /fd=\"C:\\crafty16.6w
>>>Crafty1 /fd=\"C:\\crafty16.15w
>>>\"Gromit20 -xboardquiet\" /fd=c:\\gromit-w.ccc
>>>\"Phalanx -t8960 -r900\" /fd=c:\\Phalanx
>>>Fortress /fd=\"C:\\fort-css
>>>Comet-wb /fd=\"C:\\comet2
>>>\"Exchess xb hash 8\" /fd=c:\\exchess.wb
>>>\"Inmi216\" /fd=c:\\inmi3
>>>\"AnMon426 xboard\" /fd=c:\\AnMon426
>>>\"Bringer /winboard\" /fd=c:\\bringer2
>>>LGol2000 /fd=\"C:\\lgol2002
>>>\"Tristram wb hash=8m\" /fd=c:\\tristram
>>>Zchess /fd=\"C:\\zchess
>>>Pierre14 /fd=\"C:\\pierre
>>>Pierre17 /fd=\"C:\\pierre1.7
>>>Skaki /fd=\"C:\\skaki
>>>GNUChess
>>>"
>>>/secondChessProgramNames="wCrafty-16_6 /sd=\"C:\\crafty16.6w
>>>Crafty1 /sd=\"C:\\crafty16.15w
>>>\"Gromit20 -xboardquiet\" /sd=c:\\gromit-w.ccc
>>>\"Phalanx -t8960 -r900\" /sd=c:\\Phalanx
>>>Fortress /sd=\"C:\\fort-css
>>>Comet-wb /sd=\"C:\\comet2
>>>\"Exchess xb hash 8\" /sd=c:\\exchess.wb
>>>\"Inmi216\" /sd=c:\\inmi3
>>>\"AnMon426 xboard\" /sd=c:\\AnMon426
>>>\"Bringer /winboard\" /sd=c:\\bringer2
>>>LGol2000 /sd=\"C:\\lgol2002
>>>\"Tristram wb hash=8m\" /sd=c:\\tristram
>>>Zchess /sd=\"C:\\zchess
>>>Pierre14 /sd=\"C:\\pierre
>>>Pierre17 /sd=\"C:\\pierre1.7
>>>Skaki /sd=\"C:\\skaki
>>>GNUChess
>>>"
>>
>>I had a hard time getting mine set up initially, too.  Is there a rhyme or
>>reason to the \ and "?  I am looking specifically in the differences in calling
>>LGol2000, Tristram, and Bringer.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Rob
>
>That's all explained in Winboard's help files, and I no longer remember what
>they said. but the reason that some of the programs are done different in my
>file is because with programs where I used command line parameters then the
>command line is somewhat enclosed you might say as in: \"Tristram wb hash=8m\"
>/sd=c:\\tristram  or in the case of Bringer, that's a special case where it's a
>bit different: \"Bringer /winboard\" /sd=c:\\bringer2  Both of those styles are
>based on what I borrowed from info provided by Frank Schneider's Gromit program
>and I keep borrowing it's style: \"Gromit20 -xboardquiet\" /sd=c:\\gromit-w.ccc
>
>But when I have no command line stuff to throw in there I use like with Crafty
>or Pierre, like this: Pierre17 /sd=\"C:\\pierre1.7
>
>But if you look at someone like Frank Quinsinsky's ini file the ALL of his
>programs use that general Gromit style, and this makes more sense than my ini
>file. That's why I'd recommend downloading and seeing his config.zip file. You
>have to realize that my winboard.ini file has remnants from an earlier version
>of Winboard copied and pasted in to the current ini file because I don't feel
>like rebuilding it from scratch or making all of the programs consistant just so
>that something that's tucked into the backround will look good.
>
>As for the double \\ in the path info, that's because \ is a bit of an escape
>character in C, so the first \ tells the program that a special character is
>coming up, and then the program can only see the one \, that's the best I can
>explain that.
>
>Pete

I added the Ant program since this morning, very nice program, something I had
trouble running before. I use approx 8mb hashtable because of my humble
computer. The second program part:

\"Ant361 -t8192\" /sd=c:\\Ant361

Pete





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