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Subject: Re: Thanks!

Author: Roy Brunjes

Date: 13:13:06 08/17/05

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On August 17, 2005 at 15:16:35, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On August 17, 2005 at 14:43:39, Roy Brunjes wrote:
>
>>Yes, thanks.  Anyone know how to get Hermann (for example) to actually play a
>>960 game in xboard?  When I fire it up, I get the standard opening position.
>>Then, I select File -> New FRC Game and the message comes up "Variant
>>Fischerandom not supported by Hermann".  I know it does support it, but it seems
>>that this new xboard (with FRC support) does not understand that Hermann knows
>>about FRC.
>
>Hi Roy,
>
>This is really strange.  I just tried Herrmann 1.3.5 myself on my Linux box,
>and it plays FRC without problems.  It works in both of the two FRC enabled
>XBoard versions, without doing any tricks.
>
>In XBoard-FRC (the one found on the AICE page), I start it like this:
>
>xboard-frc -fcp Hermann -fd /path/to/Hermann
>
>With XBoard-960, I do this:
>
>xboard-960 -fcp Hermann -fd /path/to/Hermann -variant fischerandom -lpf
>frc-fens.txt -lpi 100
>
>Tord

Aha.  I thought I needed to use Polyglot to get UCI support. It appears that
Hermann supports xboard natively. Problem now solved.

Thanks Tord!

Roy



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