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Subject: Re: ENG Files won't open..

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 10:41:23 08/02/04

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On August 02, 2004 at 13:33:26, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On August 02, 2004 at 09:35:18, David Dahlem wrote:
>
>>On August 02, 2004 at 04:08:41, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>
>>>On August 02, 2004 at 03:10:52, David Dahlem wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 02, 2004 at 02:43:20, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On August 01, 2004 at 21:55:58, Rob Basham wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Now I have a bunch of "eng" files on my desktop that won't open!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Guess I will have to start deleting them...:-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Ed has a good title there, however! I would like "Pro Deo" if it would work...
>>>>>
>>>>>Minimum requirements:
>>>>>
>>>>>- Chessbase version that supports UCI engines (Fritz7 and up)
>>>>>- Chesspartner 5.2 and up.
>>>>>
>>>>>If the SETUP program doesn't work for you unzip the archive and then copy the
>>>>>PRODEO directory to the ENGINES directory of ChessBase and/or ChessPartner. Then
>>>>>follow the instructions of the README file.
>>>>>
>>>>>My best,
>>>>>
>>>>>Ed
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi Ed
>>>>
>>>>Pro Deo also works great as a Winboard engine in Arena. Thanks so much for this
>>>>wonderful gift!!
>>>
>>>Yes, Pro Deo works fine under Arena too. However I noticed running an eng-eng
>>>match it plays the first game and then when the second game starts both (!!)
>>>engines start to report illegal moves resulting in infinite 0 move games. Any
>>>idea what's going on here?
>>>
>>>My best,
>>>
>>>Ed
>
>
>>Hi Ed
>>
>>I haven't had this problem yet. At least when installed as a Winboard engine.
>>Here are a few games from a tourney i started last night. Good results for Pro
>>Deo so far. :-)
>
>Hi David,
>
>Tried it as WB engine under Arena and eng-eng indeed seems to properly work now.
>But then 2 other problems occur: 1) can't change the hash table size, meaning it
>uses 4Mb only and (worse) 2) can't load the right personality, so a weak engine
>is playing.
>
>Any workarounds?
>
>Ed (Arena dummy)

Hi Ed

Yes, under "Engines/Manage/Details", just enter the hash setting and personality
in the command line options dialog, for example:

w4 rebel.eng

Regards
Dave



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