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Subject: Re: ATTN: JOHN MERLINO CM 8000 Xboard Issues(Long)

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 16:47:24 11/15/00

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On November 15, 2000 at 16:40:34, Paul Doire wrote:

>I recently installed 23 Winboard engines into CM8000 .I used the attached
>Winboad.ini file based on Frank Quisinsky's config2.zip and engine detail pages
>for all command line parameters.
>
>NOTE: the executables in my ini file have the last known rating from Franks page
>added to part of the name, so when it displays in winboard I can see ELO of the
>two engines while they play.
>
>All engines work fine under Winboard.
>
>my comments that follow are based on lookin at engine monitor windows in CM8000.
>
>11 Engines aren't working as follows:
>
>1.AnMon 5.09-nothing
>2.Arasan 5.4-plays book only
>3.Bringer-1.7-starts GUI as it should but nothing else
>4.Gnuchess 4.14-seems to move until 0-0 is necessary then stops
>5.GreenLightChess 2.10-displays move in window but doesn't make it
>6.Nejmet 2.57-nothing
>7.NewRival 1817-starts GUI-nothing else
>8.Phalanx 22-resigns immediately
>9.Raffaela 0.0.2-starts GUI-illegal move
>10.Tao 4.4-program displays CM8000 performed illegal operation,will shut
>down-invalid page fault
>11. Yace 023-nothing <-- Yace works fine for me.
>
>Also THE KING engine moves instantly with no thinking or hash searching,it
>displays one line and never varies.

I don't have this problem.  In a winboard tournament The King ended up with a
rating that puts it on par with the other major commercials.

>WINBOARD.INI
>
>/firstChessProgramNames="Amy_07_Co2450 /fd=c:\\Chess\\WinBoard\\Amy2450
>\"AnMon_5092400 xboard\" /fd=c:\\Chess\\WinBoard\\AnMon2400
>\"Arasan_542325 -H 32768\" /fd=c:\\Chess\\WinBoard\\Arasan2325
>\"Bionic_4012400 /tbpath=c:\\Chess\\edwards\"
>/fd=c:\\Chess\\WinBoard\\Bionic2400
>\"Bringer_172375 /winboard\"  /fd=c:\\Chess\\WinBoard\\Bringer2375
>\"Comet_B23-32450\" /fd=c:\\Chess\\WinBoard\\Comet2450
>\"Comet_B27\" /fd=c:\\Chess\\WinBoard\\CometB27
>\"Crafty_1713_Nal2550\" /fd=c:\\Chess\\WinBoard\\CraftyNal2550
>\"Crafty_1714_Nal\" /fd=c:\\Chess\\WinBoard\\CraftyNal2550
>\"GnuChes_4142300 -T 1400000\" /fd=c:\\Chess\\WinBoard\\GnuChess2300
>\"Gromit_302400 gromit.cui\" /fd=c:\\Chess\\WinBoard\\Gromit2400
>\"LGoliath_29a2525\" /fd=c:\\Chess\\WinBoard\\LGoliath2525
>\"Nejmet_2572425 xb\" /fd=c:\\Chess\\WinBoard\\Nejmet2572425
>\"NewRival_18171950 -winboard 32000 -info\"
>/fd=c:\\Chess\\WinBoard\\NewRival1950
>\"Phalanx_22_Co2400 -o- -l+ -t32768 -r900\" /fd=c:\\Chess\\WinBoard\\Phalanx2400
>\"Raffaela_02\"/fd=c:\\Chess\\WinBoard\\Raffaela
>\"SOS2425 c:\\Chess\\nalimov\" /fd=c:\\Chess\\WinBoard\\SOS2425
>\"Tao_44\" /fd=c:\\Chess\\WinBoard\\Tao
>\"TCBishop_00452400 TCBxInit.cui\" /fd=c:\\Chess\\WinBoard\\TCBishop2400
>\"Yace_0232500\" /fd=c:\\Chess\\WinBoard\\Yace2500
>\"Zephyr_061\" /fd=c:\\Chess\\WinBoard\\Zephyr
>\"ZChess_202400\" /fd=c:\\Chess\\WinBoard\\ZChess2400
>\"ZChess_22B\" /fd=c:\\Chess\\WinBoard\\ZChess2400
>
>Any comments ,I noticed on 11/15 Jason Willamson had some problems also.
>Am I doing something wrong??????
>
>Thanks in advance
>Paul Doire


Basicly, the problems I seem to have are centered around the command line.  It
just doesn'tseem to get sent to the engine.

JW



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