Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 22:46:01 01/10/99
Some people have complained that the internal engine for Chess Partner 4 is too weak. So to correct that you can use the latest version of Crafty. Why buy Chess Partner 4? It simply has the best features for any program in it's price range $30 U.S. First step is to install the cp4engineext.exe file, which you can download from site: www.lokasoft.nl/uk/downloads Below is the readme file that should be read carefully Remember this engine extension is a beta version. ------- Installation: Just run the selfinstalling file. After the installation start ChessPartner Select Extra|Options on the Chess engine tab click the Engine button, there should be a entry "ChessIf.ChessIf.1 in the dropdown list. This selects the plug-in module. You may get a error message asking to edit the engine profile, responding yes brings up the plug-in profile selection dialog. Select crafy or gnuchess, you must edit the profile for the location of crafty or gnuchess. In this release the profile is store in a simple text file, each engine profile start with a line [name] where name is CRAFTY, GNUCHESS, etc. The file is located in the windows directory and called: ENGINEEXT.INI Make sure to save the settings ! Below this line there are a number of parameters that can be set, the most important are the first four: Console=1 Logfile="engineext.log" EngineDir="" EnginePath="f:\crafty\wcrafty-15_14.exe" If console is set to 1 all commands that are send to the engine are displayed in a console window. Set this to 0 to hide the console window. Logfile=... if a filename is given a commands are also saved in this file, usefull for debugging. If left blank no logging is done. EngineDir specifies the directory where the engine is to be runned from. If left blank the directory of the program is used. EnginePath is the command line used to start the engine, must be a full path name. ----------------------------------------- Known problems. For a number of features ChessPartner relies on functions in the chess engine, e.g. the opening book display, adjourn,abort, and Flag features. These functions are not present in all other chess engines so these functions are disabled. Navigation in the moves list is extemely slow, this is because ChessPartner always tries to send the full game history to the chess engine, Crafty and Gnuchess are both very slow in accepting the moves. Testing has mainly been done using crafty. On occassions the chess engine does not exit. Not all chesspartner levels are interpreted correctly. Mate values are not displayed correcty, e.g. instead of displaying mate in xx moves a score or 32??? is displayed. In the crafty profile pondering has been disabled, this was neccessary to get the analyse game function to work reliable. Don't try to make illegal moves where the king is in check. There is no indication on the screen which engine is loaded. Search depth is limited to 29 ply. -- Komputer Korner
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