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Subject: Re: Self-Extracting Winboard+4 engines setup

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 00:03:32 07/02/04

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On July 01, 2004 at 23:05:37, Jason Kent wrote:

>I thought it would be interesting to put a file together that would be easy for
>computer novices to open and run.  The only thing they have to do is extract the
>files to c:\chess
>
>I think it's a good time to tell authors of the above engines and Tim Mann how
>much I appreciate the good work!
>
>Engines included:
>Crafty 19.14
>Ruffian 1.05
>Thinker 4.6b
>Delfi 4.5
>
>I don't have crafty working with an opening book because I couldn't figure it
>out.  I also would like it if I could make the default folder for extracting to
>be c:\chess\winboard.  Then it would be a piece of cake to install for anyone.
>
>You can download the current file here:
>http://www.cacsi.com/chess/Jks_Winboard.exe
>(about 3 MB)

What was hard to figure out about Crafty using an opening book? You just have to
put books.bin in the same folder as the executable and Crafty will use it ?!

Given the all-purpose setup you might want to build a smaller than usual book
though as the default book is about 5MB .

Peter



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