Author: Uri Blass
Date: 04:27:02 02/11/02
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On February 11, 2002 at 07:16:35, Aaron Tay wrote:
>On February 11, 2002 at 05:48:13, Uri Blass wrote:
>Hello
>
>>I copied my exe file(movei.exe) into the winboard directory and
>>in order to use my engine
>>I changed the last lines of winboard.ini to the following lines:
>>
>>/firstChessProgramNames={movei
>>"GNUChes5 xboard"
>>}
>>/secondChessProgramNames={movei
>>"GNUChes5 xboard"
>>}
>>/showButtonBar=true
>>
>>
>>If I want to use tscp I can change the word movei to the word tscp.
>
>Yes, you have setup the first and second program to be movei. The second line is
>another alternative gnuches
>
>
>
>Okay explaination time
>
>Normally you need the following line
>
>"Crafty1813" /fd=c:\crafty1813
>
>The first part "Crafty1813" refers to the executable file. the second part
>/fd=c:\crafty1813 refers to where the file is residing. If it's already in the
>winboard directory you don't need the second part.
>
>so just
>
>"Crafty1813" should do
>
>For the secondprogram, you do the same thing , except that instead of /fd=....
>you do /sd=....
>
>Notice that sometimes you need a special command to tell the engine that it is
>in xboard mode. normally you need to type xboard.
>
>So for gnuchess you have "Gnuchess xboard" . Xboard is not necessary for crafty
>except for very old versions.
>
>>I did not see a simple explanation what exactly I need to change in winboard.ini
>
>Not sure about simple, but there are a few websites around explaining how to do
>it. Maybe even the winboard help files..
>
>>and if there is somewhere a copy of winboard.ini that is enough to use many
>>winboard engines when all the .exe files are in the winboard directory then it
>>may be productive for me in order to play with my program against other programs
>>under winboard.
>
>Hmm. Mogen larsen has posted his,Thomas Mayer has a zipped file etc and i or
>anyone of us who use many winboard forums can give you a copy of our
>winboard.ini file but I doubt it will work without lots of work, mainly because
>we usually rename the executable according to our naming conventions.
>
>Also I may be wrong, but most people do not work the exectuables in the winboard
>directory but rather in external directorys. Very common, I think is to put it
>in something like c:\chess engines\
>
>
>>The explanation that I read suggest to do a lot of things in order to install a
>>new winboard engine and I do not want to do it every time that I want to install
>>a new engine
>
>Unfortunately yes, you have to edit the winboard.ini file each time. But it's a
>lot easier when you get used to it.
>
>
>>
>>I am not interested in downloading a lot of files except the .exe file in order
>>to install a new engine.
>
>Well how about opening books? Learn files? Documentation is also important, each
>engine is slightly different.
>
>
>>It is possible to do it with tscp and play a agme against it.
>>The explanation that I get give me too much information that I do not want today
>
>
>>
>>I read that for Crafty you need at least the following files:
>>
>>read.me
>>v15/crafty.doc
>>v15/crafty.faq
>>v15/wcrafty-15.*.exe (where * is replaced by the largest number there)
>>common/start.zip
>>common/medium.zip (or another book).
>
>Crafty 15? any reason why such a old version is used?
This is what I read in the help file of winboard.
I found enough for now how to play games with my engine against tscp
under winboard
Uri
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