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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