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Subject: Re: PolyGlot 1.3

Author: Leo Dijksman

Date: 08:55:26 07/03/05

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On July 03, 2005 at 11:23:13, Jonas Cohonas wrote:

>On July 03, 2005 at 11:18:32, Andreas Guettinger wrote:
>
>>On July 03, 2005 at 11:12:59, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
>>
>>>Is there any detailed information on how to use polyglot with WB in the first
>>>place?
>>>Or do you just have to be familiar with the command line options and how to
>>>apply them to the winboard.ini?
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>Jonas
>>
>>There is a readme file distributed alongside polyglot.
>>
>>regards
>>Andy
>
>Yeah but the part about how to enter the command lines in the winboard.ini was
>not enough (for me atleast) to get it up and running.
>
>quote:
>
>"Usage
>-----
>
>PolyGlot acts as an xboard engine.  There should be no difference with
>a normal chess program as far as the interface (e.g. WinBoard) is
>concerned.
>
>PolyGlot is invoked using "polyglot <INI file>".  Note that PolyGlot
>will look for the INI file in the current directory.  If no <INI file>
>is given, "polyglot.ini" is selected.
>
>To use PolyGlot with XBoard, you would type something like this:
>> xboard -fd 'polyglot_dir' -fcp 'polyglot engine.ini'
>
>Quotes are important when there is a space in the argument."
>
>Now i am not familiar with how this works... so a working example would be nice.

Ok, I will try to be nice :)

Creat a folder named "Shredder9", then put next files into it:
----------------------------
EngineDeepShredder9UCI.exe
EngineDeepShredder9UCI.exe.reg
shredder.pl2
shredder.cfg
Leo_PG.bin   <<>> PolyGlot book
Cygwin1.dll
Shredder_PG.exe  <<>> renamed PolyGlot.exe
PolyGlot.ini
----------------------------

The first 4 files you need to copy from your Shredder9 installation folder!

"PolyGlot.ini" should look like this:
---------------------
[PolyGlot]

EngineName    = DeepShredder 9
EngineDir     = .
EngineCommand = EngineDeepShredder9UCI.exe

Log     = true
LogFile = Shredder9.log
Resign = true
ResignScore = 800
Book = true
BookFile = Leo_PG.bin

[Engine]

Hash = 128 ; in MB
Threads = 1
NalimovPath  = D:\Nalimov
NalimovCache = 8
-----------------------

"WinBoard.ini" lines:

"Shredder_PG PolyGlot.ini" /fd="d:\winboard\_uciengines\shredder9" ;
/name="DeepShredder 9"

"Shredder_PG PolyGlot.ini" /sd="d:\winboard\_uciengines\shredder9" ;
/name="DeepShredder 9"
-----------------------

In the above example _all_ the files are in
"D:\winboard\_uciengines\shredder9"!!
EGTBs in "D:\Nalimov"

Dont forhet to change them into _your_ paths!

Unless I have forgot something it should work :))

Best wishes,
Leo.

P.S.If you use more engines/PolyGlot be sure they all use the same Cygwin1.dll
!!



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