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Subject: Re: Arena vs Winboard

Author: Luis Smith

Date: 20:25:34 02/11/04

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On February 11, 2004 at 14:59:10, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On February 11, 2004 at 09:27:37, Luis Smith wrote:
>
>>Try using TheKing with Winboard and BookThinker.  Look here
>>http://f11.parsimony.net/forum16635/messages/61606.htm
>
>Those guidelines are for an UCI engine. The King is a WinBoard engine, so
>running it through uci2wb seems like overkill.

WB2UCI makes it easy to create personality settings which is why I chose it over
the inbetween method.  Although inbetween works fine I prefer the other way.
Matter of taste erally

My setup includes BookThinker,
>The King engine and InBetween. The latter can be skipped, but I prefer including
>it. Mainly because it looks cleaner. Especially if you change parameters.
>
>The WinBoard.ini entries look like this:
>
>"TheKing-312d InB" /firstProtocolVersion=1 /fd=c:\Engines\TheKing
>"TheKing-312d InB" /firstProtocolVersion=1 /sd=c:\Engines\TheKing
>
>TheKing-312d is BookThinker in disguise and InB is InBetween, which points to
>the real The King engine.
>
>Regards,
>Mogens



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