Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 14:16:48 05/14/05
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On May 14, 2005 at 16:34:13, Komputer Korner wrote: >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. I tried the PRODEO download from the Rebel site. The installation hangs at the white.eoc file.
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