Author: Norm Pollock
Date: 09:37:04 02/02/05
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On February 02, 2005 at 12:03:48, adam wilks wrote: >Hello, >After much constipation even at my young age, my dedication to this had paid off >this afternoon after finally getting fruit,ruffian 1.0.5,shredder 7.04 and >shredder 8 to work under winboard. Their paths are somewhat different to the >usual winboard engine paths created in the winboard folder, as they are uci >engines. Firstly,each uci engine had its own folder in the winboard main >folder.Also,the shredder eng files and configuration files need to be copied to >the newly created sepearte uci folders.Secondly,Bookthinker.exe has to be copied >to the same folder, so does Thinker.dat,polyglot.exe and the polyglot ini file >needs to be created,edited with the uci engine command lines and saved in your >uci engine folder.Once this is done, Bookthinker.exe has to be renamed >to`BT+Shredder8+polyglot`.Lastly,i had to copy the finalized >`BT+Shredder8+polyglot` (or whatever uci engine you chose) in to the main >winboard folder to act as the protocool through winboard.exe.So it communicates >properly.This is my somewhat,perhaps confusing long description of how i did >this, and the engine paths can differ in respect to where you origianlly install >winboard to and all of your engine files. But it wont differ by much. It would be a lot easier to read what you wrote if you would use paragraphs and shorter sentences. ;-)
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