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Subject: Re: Winbooard use

Author: Erik Bergren

Date: 10:09:55 08/28/03

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On August 27, 2003 at 18:40:50, William H Rogers wrote:

>I have been a member here for several years now so now it is my time to ask a
>rather dumb question.
>I am in possession of several engines that use winboard. O.K. I download
>winboard, then what happens. How do I start the game?
>Bill :(

Winboard comes with GNUChess, as soon as you dezip it
you just click on "winboard.exe" (GNUChess should have
unzipped to thatsame directory). A menu pops up: click on
"Play against a Chess engine". It will give you a list
of engines which will include "GNUChess". Select it
and a game will start right away with you playing
white against that computer program.
  To add your own program (such as Crafty):
put your chess program in the same directory as
"winboard.exe". Then edit "winboard.ini": do a
"search" for the GNU program that was on the menu
when you ran winboard, then: in place of the GNU
program name (in the file "winboard.ini),
enter "wcrafty.exe" (or what ever you
programs name is).
  Then your program will be on the selection menu
when you run "winboard.exe".



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