Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 20:52:01 11/19/02
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On November 19, 2002 at 23:05:15, Pavel Blokhine wrote: >I just downloaded Ruffian.Now how do i run install it and run it? If you use Winboard, make these additions to Winboard.ini: "Ruffian" /fd=d:\Winboard\Ruffian "Ruffian" /sd=d:\Winboard\Ruffian Configuration is controlled by the file ruffian.cfg. Here is what a sample ruffian.cfg file looks like: RESIGN 700 KEEP_HASH 1 HASH 32M EGTB_HASH_SIZE 8M LOGFNAME "" BOOK "cleanbook.bok" TB_PATH "/programme/winboard/nalimov" Now, what does this mean? RESIGN 700 --> means to resign if down by a Rook and two Pawns. KEEP_HASH 1 --> Means whether or not to clear the hashtable. HASH 32M --> means to allocate 30 million bytes for hash table memory EGTB_HASH_SIZE 8M --> means to allocate 8 million bytes for end game tablebase files to cache disk reads LOGFNAME "" --> add in the name of the log file you would like to use BOOK "cleanbook.bok" --> I made my own book. Yours will probably say "ruffian.bok" instead TB_PATH "/programme/winboard/nalimov" --> This is where I store my Eugene Nalimov format tablebase files. You can also use Arena. To use Arena, choose "Engines" on the top menu bar. Then pick the first item "Install and Select" and click on the details tab. If you do not understand what to do next, then click on the help button and it will guide you. Maybe you can also ask in the Winboard Forum if you have questions still and want to run Ruffian under Winboard.
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