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Subject: Re: Fritz 5.32 Winboard-Engines

Author: Torsten Kirsch

Date: 16:48:15 12/26/98

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On December 26, 1998 at 13:02:44, Tomas Casanovas Martinez wrote:

>On December 26, 1998 at 12:25:02, Torsten Kirsch wrote:
>
>>In the last days a tested a lot of Engines with the Winboard-Interface for Fritz
>>5.32. A lot of them (like tristam, gnuchess, phalanx, olithink and so on) had no
>>problems with the interface and worked very well, another group (Arasan,
>>Fortress, zchess, Ant) worked but make their moves in shortest time (normally
>>ply1) in any level. A third group of engines (Inmich, Rival, LambChop) didnt
>>worked with the Winboard-Interface.
>>Any ideas?
>
>I am not good at all with computers, so that I am not able to run my programmes
>with the Winboard-Interface for Fritz5.32. I would be delighted to do so with
>Tristam, Phalanx or GNU, or any other of the programmes you mentioned. I have
>all of them downloaded. Also with my Hiarcs 6 if it were possible. Could you
>please explain in a very simple way how to do it?. Thank you in advance!.
>

The best way is to go to www.chessbase.com and there in the download section.
Next you have to download the winboard-interface and then you can get some
winboard engines (gnuchess, The crazy Bishop etc.). There is also an description
how to make engines like Tristam and so on playable with Fritz.

1. Make a folder (in ...\ChessBase\Engines) for the Tristam files and copy them
into this folder.
2. Copy the gnuchess.init file from gnuchess-folder (be sure it is the version
from chessbase!) to Tristam folder and rename it to tristam.init
3. Copy the Winboard interface (Winboardeng.eng) to the ...\Chessbase\Engines
folder and rename it to Tristam.eng

Now if you start Fritz and look to your engines with F3 you should see Tristam
and can work with that engine.
Hope this little explanation will help.

Best wishes
Torsten




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