Author: Stuzzi Kadent
Date: 13:33:56 09/11/02
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On September 11, 2002 at 07:40:38, Volker Pittlik wrote:
>On September 11, 2002 at 06:56:44, Stuzzi Kadent wrote:
>
>...
>
>>I follow the instructions precisely in Winboard 4.2.3 help, to write the crafty
>>address in winboard.ini but it always claims it cannot find my Crafty
>>executable. Which is very odd because I have given it the correct address and it
>>is in the same directory as Winboard...
>
>If I were you I would try the following.
>
>I _presume_ you have WinBoard installed in c:\winboard. If this isn't
>true you have to adjust to your path.
>
>I suggest to create a folder for Crafty c:\winboard\crafty and a
>folder for the TBs c:\winboard\tb.
>
>Put all Crafty files (executable, crafty.rc, books etc.) in the crafty
>folder. Put all TBs in the tb folder.
>
>Rename the Crafty executable from WCrafty-18.7 to WCrafty-187 (or whatever you
>like) but remove the "." from the name. It has been reported several times the
>dot causes problems on some machines.
>
>
>Edit your winboard.ini :
>
><... snip ...>
>
>/firstChessProgramNames={GnuChess
>"WCrafty-187" /fd=c:\winboard\crafty
>}
>/secondChessProgramNames={GnuChess
>"WCrafty-187" /sd=c:\winboard\crafty
>}
>
>
>Edit your crafty.rc:
>
><... hash etc snipped>
>
>egtb
>tbpath=c:\winboard\tb
>...
>
>When you start crafty the log file should contain the following:
>
>...
>EGTB access enabled
>using tbpath=./TB
>0 piece tablebase files found
>4 piece tablebase files found
>1406kb of RAM used for TB indices and decompression tables
>...
>
>I also suggest to update your WinBoard version. In 4.2.3 are some
>problems with time control.
>
>HTH
>
>Volker
Thanks very much Volker, Winboard did not like the executable name. Neither did
I. Now why wouldn't guides tell me these things? Tsk.
Are separate /tb and /tbs folders in /Crafty in the right place so I just throw
all the .emd in the /tb? I just was puzzled why it would give me a message about
finding 5 piece tablebases twice.
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