Author: Dan Homan
Date: 13:35:41 01/29/99
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On January 29, 1999 at 13:15:52, James T. Walker wrote: >On January 29, 1999 at 09:11:54, Dan Homan wrote: > >>On January 28, 1999 at 20:50:18, James T. Walker wrote: >> >>>On January 28, 1999 at 14:52:25, Dann Corbit wrote: >>> >>>>On January 28, 1999 at 11:38:11, Dan Homan wrote: >>>>[snip] >>>>>The auto232 interface for winboard engines created by Remi Coulom is >>>>>probably a better choice than running crafty as a Fritz-engine. I have >>>>>not tested the interface, but have heard that it works flawlessly. >>>>It would be nice if someone who has successfully done this would write a clear >>>>document to describe the process of using it. I don't want to run it myself, >>>>but I know that a lot of people are keen to be able to do this. >>><<<<<<<<< >>>I have also requested this information but all we got was someone saying it >>>works. Then he quoted the instructions given at chessbase which are incomplete >>>as far as I'm concerned. I haven't been able to get it to work either.. Also >>>the Crafty 16.3 furnished by Chessbase is running 250 points behind Fritz 5.32 >>>in my test. Thats about 100 points worse than Crafty 16.2 in my test. I hope >>>Crafty 16.4 is released soon. >>>Jim Walker >> >>This is not related to Chessbase. The Auto232 wrapper for winboard engines >>was developed by Remi Coulomb. You don't need chessbase or any other >>commerical program to run it. Torsten Schoop has used this program in his >>recent auto232 tournament and reports it works well. >> >> - Dan > >Hello Dan, >The wbengine.zip I got from Chessbase is the same I think ?! That's what I'm >talking(writing) about. I've tried the Chessbase instructions for installing We're talking about different things. Remi Coulomb's program has nothing to do with chessbase. It is simply a tool that lets a winboard program interface to auto232. That's all. Chessbase's wbengine program is a different program that could be used to do the same thing (talk to auto232). It is probably not as good a choice (for talking to auto232) for winboard engines; however, because of how it communicates with them. The effects of sending "new" before every move is unpredictable from program to program. On your trouble with getting wbengine to work so you can play/analyze using winboard engines in the Chessbase GUI.... I wish I could help, but I haven't tried it. A few engines (like mine, EXchess) are available for free directly as chessbase engines. Just download them and drop them into your engines folder. - Dan P.S. If you do use EXchess, be sure you do not have v2.45. That version was unfortunately distributed with the Junior 5.0 CD and had a (rather humorous, but large) bug that was introduced in its conversion to a chessbase engine. v2.51 works quite well and can be downloaded from the chessbase website. P.P.S Crafty is also available directly as a chessbase engine, but you will not be able to use its own opening book or tablebases, so this may not be any help to you. >programs like Crafty but I don't fully understand the instructions. In my mind >they are not complete or are assuming knowledge I do not have. I'm just barely >able to get on the internet and make messages. I'm not really a "Computer >person" so I'm "Computer Challenged" most of the time. I'm not much of a >chessplayer either but I'm facinated by the combination of computers and chess. >I thought since this site was a place where people pass along information that >they have and others would like to have, that someone would give me a step by >step instruction that works to get Crafty to work. So far all I get is >meaningless phrases. I got Crafty to work inside the Fritz GUI but not very >well. I then discovered that Crafty 16.3 has a bug in reading the endgame >tablebases on "slow hard drives" according to R. Hyatt. So I gave up the >project for a while. It is my hope that one day I can get Crafty to play under >the Fritz GUI (Or something similiar) using it's own opening book and it's >endgame tablebases. That goal seems unreachabel at the present as no >information is forthcoming. >Jim Walker
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