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Subject: Re: Importing engine to Chessmaster 9000

Author: Georg Langrath

Date: 08:19:36 02/01/03

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On February 01, 2003 at 09:17:32, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>On February 01, 2003 at 04:08:09, Georg Langrath wrote:
>
>>I imported Crafty 19.01 to Chessmaster  9000. First it played the moves
>>instantly without pondering on all levels. Then I remembered a message here
>>before. I wrote “xboard” in ”Command Lines And Settings”. Now everything
>>including time levels worked perfectly.
>>That is good, but I am curious why I have to write “xboard”. Could it be
>>anything else?
>>
>>Georg
>
>The "xboard" parameter is required to tell the CM9-GUI that a winboard engine is
>working. Please have a look at http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard/xboard_3.html#SEC3
>Kurt

Yes but as it only can import winboard engines it seems to to be kind of
overkill that you must tell Chessmaster that it is winboard. The action you do
is even called "importing a winboard engine".

Georg



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