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

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 00:13:35 07/02/04

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On July 02, 2004 at 03:03:32, Peter Berger wrote:

>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 ?!

Sorry, typo : please make that book.bin .



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