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Subject: Re: which UCI-GUI for the USB-Stick : Winboard+Polyglot !

Author: Pete Waring

Date: 09:33:41 08/12/05

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On August 09, 2005 at 09:13:34, Marc Lacrosse wrote:

>On August 09, 2005 at 06:26:32, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>>when the the stick is e.g. not anymore Machine A and F:/ but Machine B and D:/
>>
>>
>>The problem is in many GUI's that when the path changes you cannot easily setup
>>all paths to the new one.
>>
>>How do YOU do it ?!
>
>Your question (and its answer) is one of the main reasons for which I still use
>Winboard as a GUI both for playing against engines and for organising matches
>between them.
>As far as I know, winboard (combined with Polyglot 1.3 for book management and
>UCI engines) is the only portable GUI which doesn't require installation and
>works perfectly well with relative paths so that the letter assigned by windows
>to the USB key doesn't matter at all.
>The only drawback is that you have to manually adjust the configuration files
>for WB and Polyglot and this is somewhat tedious.
>If you wish I can post example config files.
>
>Marc

The Shredder Classic interface works very well from a USB stick also.  When you
install additional engines using the interface, you have to do a small amount of
editing of the .eng file to get rid of the drive letter, but once you do that it
seems to work as a relative path perfectly.  Of course, at this time you don't
get the ICC/FICS connectivity with the Shredder interface, so if online is what
you want then Winboard is a better answer.

Pete



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