Author: Steve Coladonato
Date: 15:58:24 01/16/06
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On January 16, 2006 at 18:52:24, Tom Likens wrote: >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 Tom, Thank you very much. The problem was the EngineCommand option. I did not have the ./ before Shredder9Linux and that fixed it. Syntax is everything. Regards. Steve
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