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Subject: Re: Shredder 7.04 UCI and ChessPartner.. Problems... Anyone else?

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 23:58:47 06/07/03

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On June 08, 2003 at 01:45:52, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>On June 07, 2003 at 23:54:18, Peter Skinner wrote:
>
>>On June 07, 2003 at 16:05:27, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>
>>>On June 07, 2003 at 11:37:48, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 07, 2003 at 05:51:33, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>     Hi Peter
>>>>>     I have embedded Shredder704 [Engine704.exe] as a
>>>>>     UCI-engine under CP 5.3. And I do not think it's
>>>>>     necessary to have an entry in the engineext.ini.
>>>>>     May this be a reason for your problems? As already
>>>>>     said, I have no problems at all.
>>>>>     Kurt
>>>>
>>>>How did you exactly embed the Shredder engine without the entry in the file?
>>>>
>>>>I had to put it there or it did not show up in the engines list.
>>>>
>>>>Peter.
>>>
>>>
>>>     I selected the menu "Extra", went to "Engine Import Wizard",
>>>     afterwards "Winboard / UCI Engines", and then with "Install"
>>>     installed the "Engine704.exe". That's all.
>>>     Kurt
>>
>>Hi Kurt,
>>
>>I did the same this morning, and I got two extra lines that were added to the
>>engineext.ini. One for a new game, and one for something else. This has to some
>>degree fixed my problem.
>>
>>Have you tried switching the setting from "agressive" to "normal" to see if that
>>has any impact on the playing strength?
>>
>>Peter.
>
>
>     Hi Peter
>     Not yet, because with Shredder 7.04 I usually play under
>     CB- or Classic-GUI. More interesting is for me the fact
>     why I can't find an engineext.ini in my folders. I still
>     think that this ini-file is not required provided no
>     winboard engines are running under CP 5.3 ?? I only have
>     an engineext-sample.ini, all these questions with this
>     ini-file are not clear to me. What's your opinion?
>     Kurt
>ยจ    clear to me an

The engineext.ini file is in your root directory.. ie. C:\Windows C:\WinNT

It is in there, if you look there you can find it and see the entries I am
talking about.

Peter.



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