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Subject: Re: Autoplayer woes

Author: Thomas Logan

Date: 13:27:36 10/27/04

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On October 27, 2004 at 12:33:22, Olivier Deville wrote:

>On October 27, 2004 at 12:03:04, Thomas Logan wrote:
>
>>On October 27, 2004 at 11:21:12, Olivier Deville wrote:
>>
>>>On October 27, 2004 at 07:57:11, Thomas Logan wrote:
>>>
>>>>Trying to get autplayer to work on a single cpu
>>>>
>>>>I was successful with the CP and Shredder classic gui only
>>>>
>>>>CP had to be the master
>>>>
>>>>Shredder classic as master would not work
>>>>
>>>>I could not get Fritz cb gui to work at all wether master or slave
>>>>
>>>>Arena also I was not able to get to work
>>>>
>>>>Has anyone used these combos sucessfully ?
>>>>
>>>>Tom
>>>
>>>Hi Tom
>>>
>>>If you use a nullmodem cable, all these softwares will work with autoplayer,
>>>even on a single computer. If you want to do the job without a nullmodem cable
>>>(some recent computers have only 1 COM port), Arena won't work, but Fritz
>>>should.
>>>
>>>Olivier
>>
>>Hi Oliver
>>
>>A null modem cable for just one cpu ?
>>
>>Where would it be plugged ?
>>
>>I got 1 male serial port and thats it
>>
>>Fritz does not appear to have a network option
>>
>>and I have not been able to get fritz to connnect to Shredder classic
>>or chess partner using com port
>>
>>However I tried using both on com port 1 (no cable)
>>
>>Is that a mistake ?
>>
>>Tom
>
>On my "old" AthlonXP 1700+, I have 2 serial ports, and I can play games this way
>with a nullmodem cable (ponder off, indeed). On my Athlon64 3000+, I get only 1
>serial port, so this solution won't work.
>
>There are some sharewares that allow to create virtual COM ports, a search with
>Google will give you some urls.
>
>And the Fritz GUI does work with network connection. Look here to know how to
>connect CP and Fritz : http://membres.lycos.fr/refigny63/ (bottom) - in French.
>
>Olivier

OK

But I cannot read French

I did read an english article which allows one to create an ert eng for
chessbase and a cb eng for chesspartner

I have not yet gotten to test

Tom



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