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Subject: Re: A couple of questions about The King under Winboard

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 14:25:25 06/29/01

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On June 29, 2001 at 16:50:41, Imran Hendley wrote:

>  Hi. I am trying to follow Frank Quisinsky's instructions on running The King
>under Winboard. I copied Crafty into the folder in which I installed Chessmaster
>8000 and renamed it to TheKing.exe and read its log file after playing against
>Chessmaster to get the OPK number. I then put this number into my Winboard.ini
>file, yet The King still moves immediately under Winboard no matter what the
>time control. Does anyone have any idea what else I have to do to fix this? I
>have a copy of TheKing.exe in my Winboard folder, it is not the same one in the
>Chessmaster directory - does that have anything to do with it?
>  My second question regards the Winboard Tourney Manager v0.15. Is there any
>way to include The King as an engine in the player file? I can't seem to figure
>this out because it has that strange initilization string and even the read
>command thinks its init. string in Winboard.ini is a separate engine. Has
>anybody figured this out? OK, Thanks.


 A tip would be to try it out with different WB-adapters. Frank has the
 old ones on his site. As I recall the original King.exe works with the
 latest adapter (36Kb) and the upgraded King with an older one.

 Sune



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