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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