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Subject: Re: Ruffian

Author: Pavel Blokhine

Date: 08:21:35 11/20/02

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On November 19, 2002 at 23:52:01, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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.




I have Winboard allright, but how do i add Ruffian in it? I am very confused



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