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Subject: Help! WinBoard engines under ShredderClassic GUI

Author: Ernest Bonnem

Date: 10:24:21 11/19/05


In order to run the WinBoard engines Ruffian101 or Ruffian105 under the Winboard
interface, I have a Ruffian directory containing the files:

ruffian.bok (the book)
ruffian.cfg (the configuration file)
ruffian.exe (the program)

The configuration file ruffian.cfg is a textfile containing (in my case):

RESIGN 32767
KEEP_HASH 1
HASH 128M
EGTB_HASH_SIZE 4M
LOGFNAME ""
BOOK "ruffian.bok"
TB_PATH "d:/nalimov5"

...and I need nothing else in order to make it work under the Winboard
interface.

But if I try to make it work with the ShredderClassic GUI, I don't succeed:

if I install Ruffian as Winboard Engine in ShredderClassic, the GUI creates an
"engine", Ruffian 1.0.5.eng, which is the following textfile:

[ENGINE]
Name=Ruffian 1.0.5
Author=Perola Valfridsson
Filename=D:\Chess\ShredderChess\Shredder 9 UCI\wb2uci.exe

[OPTIONS]
LoadEngine=D:\Program Files\Chess\WinBoard\Ruffian\ruffian.exe
ShowStats=0
SendToEngine=

How do I proceed now ?
Do I have to edit this file with the infos of my previous configuration file ?
Or create some complementary file ?

Should I also replace Shredder's wb2uci.exe (some people say it's old and buggy,
just like the one by Chessbase) by the wb2uci.exe made by good Odd Gunnar Malin
?




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