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Subject: Re: CEBoard vs Arena

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 15:00:40 01/22/06

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On January 22, 2006 at 16:58:09, A. Zanchetta wrote:

Many thanks! I will buy a serial cable tomorrow to try this out.

                                 Albert

>Hi,
>
>I have added today the support for auto232 in CEBoard as we discussed the other
>day ; the corresponding build (752) can be download from CEBoard's page
>(http://www.zanchetta.net/CEBoard).
>
>To make an automatic test between an engine running under Arena and a Pocket PC
>Engine running under CEBoard :
>1) Connect the Pocket PC and the PC with a serial cable
>2) Start CEBoard : click on the right icon (external board), choose "Auto232)
>and select either "drop game" or "Autosave game" for game termination. Click OK.
>Select the engine and its level.
>3) Start Arena, goto "Extra" and "autoplay" ; set Arena as Master and start the
>match.
>
>Note 1 : it is the first time I have used Arena and I hope this is the standard
>way to run a match against an auto232 engine.
>Note 2 : it does not seem to work under Fritz 9. As I never used F9 to do engine
>matches, I don't know if there is something special to do to get the same
>behavior.
>
>Alain



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