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Subject: Re: problem extracting opk number in cm10k demo

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 14:15:59 06/25/04

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On June 25, 2004 at 17:09:07, David Dahlem wrote:

>On June 25, 2004 at 16:54:52, Norm Pollock wrote:
>
>>>I don't have any problem extracting the opk number from the CM10 Demo. If it
>>>doesn't work for you in CM10, it probably won't work in CM9. What do you have in
>>>your Inbetween.ini file?
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>Dave
>>
>>This is where I am confused. I can use the CM10 Demo directly from the start
>>menu in winXP. The opk number doesn't come up on the interface, or in any
>>command window. Everything available in the demo works fine.
>>
>>When I use TheKing as a UCI engine in Fritz8, it only goes 3 deep in its search
>>because I don't have the opk number. I do not use inbetween because I use
>>wb2uci. I have installed many wb engines into Fritz8 using wb2uci. TheKing works
>>in Fritz8, it just doesn't work well. And even if I used inbetween, I still
>>don't have the opk number to put into it.
>>
>>From what I've gleaned from here is that I need the CM9 interface in order to
>>get the opk number. So that's why I ordered it.
>>
>>If you can tell me your trick how you got the opk number using just the CM10
>>interface, I would gladly give it a try.
>>
>>regards,
>>Norm
>
>Ok, i'll try. :-)
>
>InBetween is used to extract the opk number. Put Inbetween.exe and InBetween.ini
>in the same folder with TheKing engine. This is the same folder that you
>installed the CM10 Demo. Rename TheKing.exe to TheKing333.exe. Rename
>Inbetween.exe to TheKing. In the InBetween.ini file, copy and paste these
>entries....
>
>[InBetween]
>CommandLine := TheKing333.exe
>Debug := 3
>
>[Client2Server]
>
>
>[Server2Client]
>
>
>Now when you start the CM10 Demo, you should get a console window with the opk
>number, and other parameters also. And logfile.txt will also have these same
>parameters.
>
>In my opinion, to actually run TheKing 3.33 in another gui, for example, Fritz
>or Arena, the wb2uci adapter is much better than Inbetween.
>
>I hope this will help, and you will be able to extract the opk number. :-)
>
>Let me know if you have any questions.
>
>Regards
>Dave

I forgot to add the line in the above post for InBetween.ini that outputs the
logfile. The correct InBetween.ini is ....

[InBetween]
CommandLine := TheKing333.exe
Debug := 3
Log := logfile.txt

[Client2Server]


[Server2Client]

Regards
Dave



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