Author: Francesco Di Tolla
Date: 08:30:17 11/01/00
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On November 01, 2000 at 02:01:53, Sam Slutzky wrote: >I tried a little while ago to get my program working with the default >configuration file supplied for it with the Chess Academy 2000 English demo I >downloaded from their web site. However, CA always tells me right off the bat >that my program does not support all of the features it requires (even though it does). This is the standard behavior of the program when you ask for a setting that the engine does not support. Sometime it is just a problem with the configuration file, and CA does not know that the program can use that feature. I think you can tweak the init file to tell to CA that your program does indeed support the settings you wanted to use. [The is also a bug: the program has two equivalent settings which are the blitz setting and the total time/game. This is done so that you can set one for blitz (say game in 5) and the other like all in 60'. It is just for conveinece. Still the version 5 of the program accepts one of the two and rejects the other sometimes. This should be fixed in version 6 which is coming.] The parameters you can set in version 6 are the followings: if the program supports a move now coomand EngineMoveNow=1 if the prgram accepts the input of positions EngineInitPos=1 if the program supports a game at fixed time per move EngineCmdST=<command> where <command> is the command the engine uses internally for setting the fixed time mode (e.g. for crafty EngineCmdST=st). Similarly you can tell about other commands: EngineCmdSB=<coomand to set-up a board> EngineCmdSD=<coomand to use fixed depth> EngineCmdHash=<coomand to set the hash> EngineCmdHint=<coomand to set get a hint> EngineCmdDraw=<coomand to ask for a draw> and empty command value means that the prorgam does not support the feature. There are some further settings I don't know yet the details about. But I guess that the ability to play a game i fixed total time depends on tis further settings. Some of this settings were already supported in the version you had. Just try. regards Franz
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