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Subject: Re: Xboard engine for Chess Position trainer

Author: Komputer Korner

Date: 13:34:13 05/14/05

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On May 14, 2005 at 09:35:57, Eelco de Groot wrote:

>On May 14, 2005 at 03:03:47, Komputer Korner wrote:
>
>>Does anyone know where i can get the best Xboard engine for Chess Position
>>trainer. It's help file doesn't mention anything about engines but the program
>>clearly allows X board engines. these have been around a long time if i
>>remember.  But my memory is failing me and i have lost all of my old files with
>>the computer chess info. Also I know that winboard is still alive and well. i
>>used to enjoy the engine matches within Winboard. I seem to recall that the
>>original interface was Xboard. Shouldn't Crafty work with Chess Position
>>trainer?
>
>Hi Komputer Korner. You are something of a legend! Good to see that you have
>some time for computer chess again.
>
>Unfortunately I know very little about Winboard and XBoard. I thought that
>XBoard only works with UNIX. Is Chess Position Trainer a Unix/Linux program? If
>it is Windows it probably supports Winboard? For documentation about Winboard
>and XBoard, Tim Mann would be the man to ask, and his homepage has all the
>protocol information etc:    http://www.tim-mann.org/
>
>For Winboard engines the site from Leo Dijksman probably has them all:
>http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/
>My favourite Winboard engine would be Pro Deo 1.1 from Ed Schröder, and it is on
>his site  http://members.home.nl/matador/index.htm
>
>But there are many many strong engines these days! Spike, SlowChess, List,
>Crafty, Ruffian 1.01 and 1.05, Aristarch 4.50, Fruit and modified Fruit/Toga are
>just a few of the names of non-commercial engines that I know.
>
>Best regards,
> Eelco


CPT is a windows program. However it doesn't have any instructions on how to set
up the engine for analysis  but I assume that you simply put the engine into the
same directory and the program will recognize it. Thanks for the tips.



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