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Subject: Re: Question for John Merlino

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 08:50:44 06/08/03

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On June 07, 2003 at 20:47:53, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On June 07, 2003 at 20:07:32, Lyn Harper wrote:
>
>>        In CM9K you can import winboard engines, and I did just that. I've got
>>Crafty
>>and Yace to run in CM. Oddly, I even got Ruffian into CM, which I thought was a
>>UCI engine, but it accepted it ok.
>>  My question: Will Arena take the CM engine? It's a piece of cake to download
>>and install a winboard engine into Arena, but when I tried to add CM the engine
>>would'nt start, saying the file I stored in the path was not found. I tried
>>several times with no luck.
>>  You might ask why I want CM in Arena. Well, I'm sort of partial to the Arena
>>interface, and I heard CM plays best outside it's own interface.
>>  Perhaps if you type here the full path you would use?
>>   Thanks
>>   Lyn
>
>
>Lyn,
>
>I had CM 8 and 9K in Chessbase F8 GUI set up using wb2uci.  For Arena, I just
>then pointed to the same file (wb2uci.exe) and it works fine.  Of course CM does
>not have an opening book in Arena. >
>Best
>
>Michael

That's why you should use CM 8k or 9k as a winboard engine and use it together
with bookthinker.





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