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Subject: Re: Using Chess Engines with Chess Assistant Club

Author: gerold daniels

Date: 10:38:54 07/14/05

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On July 14, 2005 at 13:32:38, Ted Summers wrote:

>Hopefully this will be a cleaner set of directions on how to use your chess
>engines with the Chess Assistant Club Interface.
>
>1st: Open the C:\Program Files\ChessPlanet\EngOpt.ini file with any Text Editor.
>
>2nd: Locate the Program List Section. It should look like sample below:
>
>[Programslist]
>Count=2
>ChessProgram1=Delfi||10|30000||2|0
>ChessProgram2=Dragon||9|30000||2|0
>
>To add your chess engines you need to understand some of what the above means.
>This is what I have learned so far. Please note that the chess engines Delfi &
>Dragon are built in engines. This is why these will be the only engines without
>a path statement. You should format the statements for the chess engines you
>want to add like example A below:
>
>Example A:
>
>ChessProgram#=Engine_Name|Dirctory_Path\Engine_EXE |#|#####|#|#
>
>or
>
>ChessProgram#=Engine_Name|Dirctory_Path\Engine_EXE |1|22222|3|4
>
>By now you might be wondering what to the numbers mean. So I will tell all that
>I know so far.
>
>Count=# (Here # is the number chess engines you want listed)
>ChessProgram# (Here # is for listing order. Aka= The order the engine names are
>listed)
>
>Now notice the four sets of numbers following the Engine_EXE
>
>The first number is for ENGINE TYPE.
>
>I have learned of 3 Engine Types and they are:
>
>6=UCI ENGINES
>7=WINBOARD ENGINES
>8=CRAFTY ENGINES
>
>The second set of numbers I have no clue as to what it means.
>The third set of numbers is for HASHTABLE size in Megabytes.
>The fouth set of numbers I also have no clue as to what it means at this time.
>
>The is what the edited section might look like:
>
>[Programslist]
>Count=8
>ChessProgram1=Smarthink|C:\Smarthink\Smarthink.exe|7|30000||8|0
>ChessProgram2=Fruit|C:\fruit_21\Fruit_21.exe|6|30000||8|0
>ChessProgram3=Crafty|C:\Crafty SSE\crafty1919sse2.exe|8|30000||8|0
>ChessProgram4=Shredder|C:\ShredderChess\EngineShredder9UCI.exe|6|30000||8|0
>ChessProgram5=Delfi||10|30000||2|0
>ChessProgram6=Dragon||9|30000||8|0
>
>I hope some might find this information useful. So far I have got every UCI or
>Winboard chess engine that I use to work. Below are links with info about the
>online chess interface.
>
>http://www.chessassistantclub.com
>
>http://chessassistantclub.com/program_eng.html

HiTed . Thanks for the infor. I been trying to play with the engines already
in there and can't get them to work . How do i setup for engine vs. engine
on line. Thanks in advance. any help on this will be appreciated.

Gerold.



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