Author: Roy Lourenz
Date: 03:04:47 08/25/05
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On August 25, 2005 at 03:43:54, Marc Lacrosse wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>As there are now 512 MB or even 1 GB USB memory sticks at very affordable price,
>I wondered which tools I could put on it for having my favorite chess tools
>everywhere ready to plug and play on any Win PC.
>
>Requirements are :
>- programs with no installation procedure, no registry storage, only local
>saving of any parameters in .ini or analogous config files
>- programs which accept relative path addressing for taking into account the
>fact that the letter assigned to the drive can vary from PC to PC
>
>I presently use :
>- winboard + polyglot
>- CDB database
>- chesscat PGN reader and diagram maker
>- jin FICS and ICC client (requires java installed)
>- a lot of command line utilities
>
>I have seen somewhere that Bookup DB meets the requirements but I did not try
>
>If I remember well there was recently a post saying that shredder classic GUI
>should work with a little manual config files editing. I could not get it
>working with sherdderclassic 6 (which came on CD with shredder 7). I always get
>a CDcheck message box and then an error message ("impossible to write XXX file"
>or something like this).
>
>Tom's winboard engines manager does not seem to accept relative paths
>addressing.
>
>I did not try any tournaments managers in this setting (i do it all by hand
>through batch files but it's a little boring)
>
>I suppose that other majors GUI won't accept the "portable" reqirements. Any
>good surprise on this ?
>
>Should be nice to have all informations of this kind collected in the thread
>then maybe on a webpage.
>
>Any information ?
>
>Marc
I believe Bringer will meet your requirements. It has a nice GUI for human vs
computer games ,you can set the level by ELO number, you can setup a position by
a method similar to the Chessbase method, it shows analysis while thinking etc
etc. The size is small, <2Mb, although there is a larger book of about 7Mb.
Regards
Roy
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