Author: George Gillespie
Date: 22:13:57 03/05/00
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On March 05, 2000 at 23:03:46, Daniel Chancey wrote: >The following programs has problems running: > >AVOG: rejects moves as black. >Comet:Cannot find the file specified >\"Comet"/fd="C:\\Winboard\\Comet\" >Fortress: Rejects moves as black. >Gromit: Cannot find the file specified >\"Gromit" /fd="C:\\Winboard\\Gromit\" >Knightx: Quits responding for unknown reason >Phalanx: Cannot find the file specified >\"Phalanx" /fd="C:\\Winboard\\Phalanx\" >SoS:Does not respond >SSeChess: Shows "White mates 0-1" on First game started and does not move on >third game. >TCB: Opening book not responding. >ZChess: Cannot find the file specified >\"ZChess" /fd="C:\\Winboard\\ZChess\" >Lambchop: Cannot find the file specified >\"Lambchop" /fd="C:\\Winboard\\Lambchop\" > >More than half the programs I've downloaded have flaws. A total tradegy if the >tournament started. I need help from this. > >Castle2000 Castle2000, All of my individual engine directories are in the Winboard directory. I do not use the entire path in winboard .ini, so I can quickly copy the entire Winboard directory to another location or computer, without the need to update the path in winboard.ini. Here is the engine section of my winboard.ini: /firstChessProgramNames="Crafty1708 /fd=.\\Crafty \"AnMon503 xboard\" /fd=.\\AnMon \"Ant_416 -t32768\" /fd=.\\Ant \"Arasan52 -H 32768\" /fd=.\\Arasan \"Bionic401 /tbpath=.\\!TB_Alt\" /fd=.\\Bionic \"Bringer16 /winboard\" /fd=.\\Bringer \"Cilian413 -easy -hash20 -xboard -mvnw\" /fd=.\\Cilian \"CometB12\" /fd=.\\Comet \"Crafty1708\" /fd=.\\Crafty \"DChess1_0_2\" /fd=.\\DChess \"ExChess251 xb hash 32\" /fd=.\\ExChess \"Faile06 -xboard\" /fd=.\\Faile \"Fortress161\" /fd=.\\Fortress \"Gromit220 -tablebasepath .\\!TB_Alt -xboardquiet\" /fd=.\\Gromit \"Gnuchesx\" /fd=.\\GnuChess \"Inmi217\" /fd=.\\InmiChess \"LDBlanche20c xb hash 32\" /fd=.\\LDBlanche \"LChop71 -xboard -hash 40\" /fd=.\\LChop \"LGol141a\" /fd=.\\LGoliath \"LGolG205\" /fd=.\\LGolGold \"LGol2000\" /fd=.\\LGol2000 \"Monik19\" /fd=.\\Monik \"WbNimzo2000\" /fd=.\\Nimzo \"OliThink221 -H 32 -t\" /fd=.\\OliThink \"Phalanx21 -l+ -t32768 -r900\" /fd=.\\Phalanx \"Pierre17\" /fd=.\\Pierre \"Rival1814 -winboard 32000 -info\" /fd=.\\Rival \"Skaki119\" /fd=.\\Skaki \"SSEChess202\" /fd=.\\SSEChess \"TCBishop45 tcbxinit.cui\" /fd=.\\TCBishop \"Tristram416 wb hash=32m ponder=off\" /fd=.\\Tristram \"ZChess120\" /fd=.\\ZChess " /secondChessProgramNames="Crafty1708 /sd=.\\Crafty \"AnMon503 xboard\" /sd=.\\AnMon \"Ant_416 -t32768\" /sd=.\\Ant \"Arasan52 -H 32768\" /sd=.\\Arasan \"Bionic401 /tbpath=.\\!TB_Alt\" /sd=.\\Bionic \"Bringer16 /winboard\" /sd=.\\Bringer \"Cilian413 -easy -hash20 -xboard -mvnw\" /sd=.\\Cilian \"CometB12\" /sd=.\\Comet \"Crafty1708\" /sd=.\\Crafty \"DChess1_0_2\" /sd=.\\DChess \"ExChess251 xb hash 32\" /sd=.\\ExChess \"Faile06 -xboard\" /sd=.\\Faile \"Fortress161\" /sd=.\\Fortress \"Gromit220 -tablebasepath .\\!TB_Alt -xboardquiet\" /sd=.\\Gromit \"Gnuchesx\" /sd=.\\GnuChess \"Inmi217\" /sd=.\\InmiChess \"LDBlanche20c xb hash 32\" /sd=.\\LDBlanche \"LChop71 -xboard -hash 40\" /sd=.\\LChop \"LGol141a\" /sd=.\\LGoliath \"LGolG205\" /sd=.\\LGolGold \"LGol2000\" /sd=.\\LGol2000 \"Monik19\" /sd=.\\Monik \"WbNimzo2000\" /sd=.\\Nimzo \"OliThink221 -H 32 -t\" /sd=.\\OliThink \"Phalanx21 -l+ -t32768 -r900\" /sd=.\\Phalanx \"Pierre17\" /sd=.\\Pierre \"Rival1812 -winboard 32000 -info\" /sd=.\\Rival \"Skaki119\" /sd=.\\Skaki \"SSEChess202\" /sd=.\\SSEChess \"TCBishop45 tcbxinit.cui\" /sd=.\\TCBishop \"Tristram416 wb hash=32m ponder=off\" /sd=.\\Tristram \"ZChess120\" /sd=.\\ZChess " You will notice I have changed the names of the executibles to reflect their version number. It is a lot of trouble keeping up with new releases, but I do know which version I am running when I select the engines at Winboard startup. George
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