Author: Rémi Coulom
Date: 06:32:39 07/16/99
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On July 16, 1999 at 03:36:44, Dann Corbit wrote: >I can't make it work. What am I doing wrong? > >Here is my winboard.ini relevant section: >" >/firstChessProgramNames="GNUChess >\"Comet-Wb\" /fd=G:\\ >\"AnMon426 xboard\" /fd=G:\\ >\"Ant361 -t32768\" /fd=G:\\ >\"Arasanx -H 32768\" /fd=G:\\ >\"Crafty1\" /fd=G:\\ >\"ExChess xb hash 32\" /fd=G:\\ >\"Gromit220 -tablebasepath G:\\TB -xboardquiet\" /fd=G:\\ >\"LDB xb hash 32\" /fd=G:\\ >\"Chop -xboard -hash 40\" /fd=G:\\ >\"LGGold205\" /fd=G:\\ >\"Phalanx -t32768 -r900\" /fd=G:\\ >\"SSEChess\" /fd=G:\\ >\"WBEngine !start.cui\" /fd=G:\\ >\"ZChess\" /fd=G:\\ >\"Pierre14\" /fd=G:\\ >" >/secondChessProgramNames="GNUChess >\"Comet-Wb\" /fd=G:\\ >\"AnMon426 xboard\" /fd=G:\\ >\"Ant361 -t32768\" /fd=G:\\ >\"Arasan51a -H 32768\" /fd=G:\\ >\"Crafty1\" /fd=G:\\ >\"ExChess xb hash 32\" /fd=G:\\ >\"Gromit220 -tablebasepath G:\\TB -xboardquiet\" /fd=G:\\ >\"LDB xb hash 32\" /fd=G:\\ >\"Chop -xboard -hash 40\" /fd=G:\\ >\"LGGold205\" /fd=G:\\ >\"Phalanx -t32768 -r900\" /fd=G:\\ >\"SSEChess\" /fd=G:\\ >\"WBEngine !start.cui\" /fd=G:\\ >\"ZChess\" /fd=G:\\ >\"Pierre14\" /fd=G:\\ >" wbengine does not read winboard.ini. You have to use a specific initialization file. wbengine.zip contains CRAFTY.CUI, GNU.CUI and TCB.CUI as examples. WBENGINE.TXT gives some explanations on how to use them : " The best way to figure out how all of this works is to look at the example initialization files provided along with wbengine.exe. They are written to play a 20 game match between tcb and gnuchess on the same machine, with com1 connected to com2 with a null-modem cable. To use them, open two MS-DOS windows, run "wbengine tcb.cui" in one and "wbengine gnu.cui" in the other. These commands must be run in this order, since gnuchess is master and starts the match. Do not use alt-tab to switch from one window to another, but use the mouse. You will have to edit the paths in these files in order to make them work on your system. " Note that wbengine will not stop a draw game if none of the engines claims draws by sending the "Draw" or "RESULT 1/2-1/2" strings. I will fix this for the next version. Note also that you might have problems with winboard engines that print a command prompt. This is clearly not compliant to the winboard protocol definition, so I do not plan to fix it. You can e-mail me if you have any problem. Remi
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