Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 14:34:49 02/24/99
Chess Partner 4.026 can play on all the chess servers but it can also play modem to modem against a single player. On one computer create a internet console with type ChessPartner server, press connect button, On the other computer, create internet console type ChessPartner client type the ip address of the server computer and connect ! If after playing against Chess Partner, you find the engine of Chess Partner too weak import the latest Crafty engine First step is to install the cp4engineext.exe file, which you can download from Lex's site site: www.lokasoft.nl/uk/downloads Quote from Lex "Below is the readme file that should be read as well. Remember this engine extension is a beta version, it does work but is still long way from finished. Lex ------- Installation: Just run the selfinstalling file. After the installation start ChessPartner Select Extra|Options on the Chess engine tab click the Engine button, there should be a entry "ChessIf.ChessIf.1 in the dropdown list. This selects the plug-in module. You may get a error message asking to edit the engine profile, responding yes brings up the plug-in profile selection dialog. Select crafy or gnuchess, you must edit the profile for the location of crafty or gnuchess. In this release the profile is store in a simple text file, each engine profile start with a line [name] where name is CRAFTY, GNUCHESS, etc. The file is located in the windows directory and called: ENGINEEXT.INI Make sure to save the settings ! Below this line there are a number of parameters that can be set, the most important are the first four: Console=1 Logfile="engineext.log" EngineDir="" EnginePath="f:\crafty\wcrafty-15_14.exe" If console is set to 1 all commands that are send to the engine are displayed in a console window. Set this to 0 to hide the console window. Logfile=... if a filename is given a commands are also saved in this file, usefull for debugging. If left blank no logging is done. EngineDir specifies the directory where the engine is to be runned from. If left blank the directory of the program is used. EnginePath is the command line used to start the engine, must be a full path name. ----------------------------------------- Known problems. For a number of features ChessPartner relies on functions in the chess engine, e.g. the opening book display and some others. This functions are not present in other chess engines so these functions are disabled. Navigation in the moves list is extemely slow, this is because ChessPartner always tries to send the full game history to the chess engine, Crafty and Gnuchess are both very slow in accepting the moves. Testing has mainly been done using crafty. On occassions the chess engine does not exit. Not all chesspartner levels are interpreted correctly. Mate values are not displayed correcty, e.g. instead of displaying mate in xx moves a score or 32??? is displayed. In the crafty profile pondering has been disabled, this was neccessary to get the analyse game function to work reliable. Don't try to make illegal moves where the king is in check." -- Komputer Korner
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