Author: Alessandro Damiani
Date: 03:49:04 10/25/02
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On October 25, 2002 at 00:17:13, Bob Durrett wrote:
>On October 24, 2002 at 23:48:29, Mike S. wrote:
>
>>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
>
>
>It seems odd that the Ruffian Read Me file uses the quotation marks differently.
>
>They give:
>
>...
>/firstChessProgramNames={GNUChess
>"GNUChes5 xboard"
>Ruffian /fd="C:\Program Files\Winboard\ruffian"
>}
>...
>
>This has the quotation marks on the path and not on Ruffian.
>
>I know nothing about syntax for *.ini files, although I could look it up in one
>of my Windows 98 reference books, I suppose.
>
>Do you see any problem with doing it the way that is shown above?
>
>Bob D.
Taken from WinBoard's help file:
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/fd or /firstDirectory dir
/sd or /secondDirectory dir
/fcp or /firstChessProgram command
/scp or /secondChessProgram command
Names of the chess engines and working directories in which they are to be run.
The second chess engine is started only in Two Machines (match) mode. These
arguments are parsed as filenames; that is, the \ character is interpreted
literally, not as a C-style escape.
The dir argument specifies the initial working directory for the chess engine.
It should usually be the directory where the engine and its working files are
installed. If dir is not an absolute pathname, it is interpreted relative to the
directory from which WinBoard.exe itself was loaded. The dir argument is ignored
if the chess engine is being run on a remote machine (see firstHost and
secondHost below). The default value for dir "", meaning that the chess engine
is expected to be installed in the same directory as WinBoard.
The command argument is actually the command line to the chess engine, so if the
engine itself needs command line arguments, you can include them by enclosing
command in single or double quotes. If the engine name or an engine argument has
a space in it, use single quotes around the whole command, and inside them use
double quotes around each item that contains spaces. If the engine name has more
than one period in it (for example, QChess1.5.exe), you must include the ".exe"
extension; otherwise you can leave it out. The default value for command is "",
which brings up the startup dialog to ask which engines you want.
Examples:
WinBoard /cp /fd="C:\Program Files\Crafty" /fcp=WCrafty-15.12.exe /scp=GNUChess
WinBoard /cp /fd="C:\Miracle Games" /fcp='"Miracle Chess.exe" /wow'
/scp=GNUChess
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Alessandro
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