Author: Tom Likens
Date: 15:52:24 01/16/06
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On January 16, 2006 at 18:42:53, Steve Coladonato wrote: >I have installed polyglot 1.3 with the ScoreWhite patch and Shredder9 on my >linux box. I am encountering the following when trying to run xboard: >xboard: Error writing to first chess program: Broken pipe > >I am using the shredder.ini file from the "Shredder for Linux" site and have >modified the file paths appropriately. I invoke xboard with -fd pointing to the >path where polyglot is installed. I think I have tried every variation of >specifying the polyglot command as the argument to -fcp; "polyglot >shredder.ini", "/PATH/polyglot shredder.ini", /PATH/polyglot >/PATH/shredder.ini". All to no avail. Anyone know of a way to get this >debugged? > >Thanks. > >Steve Hello Steve, My xboard call is a shell script that looks like: #! /bin/csh -f xboard -size large \ -geometry +450-0 \ -fd '/design/chess/polyglot/1.3' \ -fcp './polyglot shredder9.ini' \ -tc 15:00 -inc 3 \ -xponder -thinking My "shredder.ini" file: [PolyGlot] EngineName = Shredder 9.11 EngineDir = /design/chess/shredder/Shredder9/engines EngineCommand = ./Shredder9Linux Log = false Book = true BookFile = /design/chess/shredder/Shredder9/books/shredder9.bkt [Engine] Hash = 64 NalimovPath =/home/egtb/TB NalimovCache = 8 OwnBook = true ************************************* I hope this helps. regards, --tom
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