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Subject: Re: How to use TheKing for analysis under Winboard

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 12:37:44 09/11/03

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On September 11, 2003 at 15:08:18, Jonas Bylund wrote:

>I don't know if someone have found this out, but here goes:

The King IS a Winboard engine.
Why on earth do you convert a Winboardengine to UCI and back to Winboard?

If there is a translation problem or it is necessary to send the OBK number you
can always use inbetween.

Michael


http://www.aarontay.per.sg/Winboard/Winboard5.html

>
>First you need to create a folder in which you setup TheKing as a UCI
>engine(using the wb2uci.exe), like you would when you set it up to run as a UCI
>engine under Fritz. Next you download the uci2wb from:
>http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/index.html
>put that in the same folder as TheKing.exe, wb2uci.exe etc and have it point to
>wb2uci.exe.
>In the winboard.ini you have to point to the adapter.exe like this "adapter",
>note you cannot change the name of the adapter.exe or adapter.rc etc.
>
>Technical setup:
>
>wb2uci.eng
>
>[ENGINE]
>Name=CM9000 SKR
>Author=Johan de Koning
>Filename=wb2uci.exe
>
>[OPTIONS]
>Program=TheKing.exe
>InitString=cm_parm default\cm_parm opk=895958 opp=100 opn=100 opb=100 opr=100
>opq=100 myp=100 myn=100 myb=100 myr=100 myq=101 mycc=105 mymob=110 myks=155
>mypp=100 mypw=100 cfd=0 sop=100 avd=-2 rnd=0 sel=16 md=99
>HashCommand=cm_parm tts=33554432 ttu=8
>InitTime=4
>Ponder=false
>Logfile=true
>Edit=edit
>UseSAN=false
>logfile=true
>ownbook=false
>Priority=normal
>AddHintMove=false
>Protocol=1
>LevelExtend=Progressive
>computer=true
>Analyze=true
>UseUndo=true
>Visible=Ponder,Hash
>
>adapter.rc (the uci2wb config)
>
>#############################
>#
># Adapter Resource Control
>#
>#############################
>#
># Exe-Name
>exe=wb2uci.exe
>#
># Directory
>dir=C:\theking
>#
># Hashtable size in MB (*not* for UCI)
>Hash=32
>#
>
>Winboard.ini
>
>/firstChessProgramNames={GNUChess
>"GNUChes5 xboard"
>"adapter"
>}
>/secondChessProgramNames={GNUChess
>"GNUChes5 xboard"
>"adapter"
>}
>
>This mean that all the files are located in C:\theking.
>
>There you go, TheKing is now ready to be used for analysis under Winboard.
>
>Jonas



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