Author: Mike S.
Date: 20:48:29 10/24/02
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On October 24, 2002 at 22:46:04, Bob Durrett wrote:
>(...)
>I couldn't find the winboard.ini file using
>Find File. I'm not sure what to try next. does the winboard.ini file go by a
>different name? Do I have to do something special to download that .ini file
>from Tim Mann's site? Or what???
Simply start winboard.exe (you can choose "Just view or edit game files" for
this first try in the startup dialogue which will appear). WinBoard will then
create the file winboard.ini, with default option settings, in the same
directory.
While other GUIs may have even (much) more features, WinBoard probably is still
the best choice for matches between WB.-engines. I also use it for test suites
(manually; results can most often be read/verified from log files afterwards).
HTH,
M.Scheidl
P.S. Here an example, from the *end* of my winboard.ini. Note that you have to
repeat the configuration line a 2nd time with /sd=... (not /fd=...) under
/secondChessProgramNames, which is a mistake I made often when copying the line.
Also, xreuse becomes xreuse2 in that part. The rest is really simple I think,
name in "" and the path to the engines directory, basically.:
/firstChessProgramNames={
"GNUChes5 xboard"
"Delfi" /fd=c:\Schach\Winboard\Delfi3
"wcrafty-1815 xboard" /fd=c:\Schach\Winboard\Crafty
"Crafty1814dc xboard" /fd=c:\Schach\Winboard\Crafty
"wcrafty_1801 xboard" /fd=c:\Schach\Winboard\Crafty
"Yace_Berlin" /fd=c:\Schach\Winboard\Yace
"LG2000V35" /fd=c:\Schach\Winboard\LG2000V35 /xreuse
"Gromit382 gromit.cui" /fd=c:\Schach\Winboard\Gromit382
"WBNimzo2000b" /fd=c:\Schach\Winboard\wbnimzob
"mad" /fd=c:\Schach\Winboard\MAD006 /xreuse
}
/secondChessProgramNames={
"GNUChes5 xboard"
"Delfi" /sd=c:\Schach\Winboard\Delfi3
"wcrafty-1815 xboard" /sd=c:\Schach\Winboard\Crafty
"Crafty1814dc xboard" /sd=c:\Schach\Winboard\Crafty
"wcrafty_1801 xboard" /sd=c:\Schach\Winboard\Crafty
"Yace_Berlin" /sd=c:\Schach\Winboard\Yace
"LG2000V35" /sd=c:\Schach\Winboard\LG2000V35 /xreuse2
"Gromit382 gromit.cui" /sd=c:\Schach\Winboard\Gromit382
"WBNimzo2000b" /sd=c:\Schach\Winboard\wbnimzob
"mad" /sd=c:\Schach\Winboard\MAD006 /xreuse2
}
/showButtonBar=false
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