Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 12:09:46 11/15/00
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On November 15, 2000 at 14:44:15, John Merlino wrote: >On November 15, 2000 at 03:49:31, Jason Williamson wrote: > >>Ok, basicly I tried all the winboard engines I have, and these are the ones that >>will play: >> >>Amy 0.7c >>Amyan >>Ant 6.03 >>Arasan 5.14 >>Averno >>Bestia >>Betsy >>Chessterfield >>Crafty >>DChess >>Dragon (doesn't work in Fritz 6 ;)) >>Fortress >>Freyr >>Gnuchess >>Gnuchess 5 >>Golem >>Gully >>Inmichess >>KnightX >>Lambchop (another one that doesn't work under Fritz) >>Little Goliath >>Phalanx >>Yace >>and ZChess >> >>The bigest problem is that CM seems to not want to pass the commandline >>variable. >> >>JW > >Just in the interest of fairness, there MUST be some engines that you tried that >did NOT work. Could you list those please? I would be very surprised if every >engine worked, simply due to the vast differences between how the Winboard >protocol is implemented (or not) among all of these freeware engines. > >jm Here are the engines that I have tried and didn't get to work: Gromit (needs the command line gromit.cui or close to that) Phalanx (works but needs command line to set hashtables and other stuff) TCB (Needs command line to setup tcbxinit.cui) Anmon (wouldn't move at all) Dragon (command line) Exchess (command line) Golem and Gully both seemed to work, but when I tried an engine tourney they didnt. This isn't terribly surprising since they are rather new and possibly buggy. SOS (command line) JW
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