Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 12:19:57 08/12/99
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On August 11, 1999 at 14:08:55, Dann Corbit wrote: >On August 11, 1999 at 14:02:07, Pete Galati wrote: >>On August 11, 1999 at 13:50:05, Dann Corbit wrote: >>>It would sure be nice if all the winboard engine folks would get together and >>>write a standard for initialization files. That way, all the engines could >>>share the same ini file and all of them would be equally prepared. They would >>>all look the same place for tablebase files and would all have the same sizes >>>for hashing. >>> >>>Just a thought. >> >>Yeah, we waste allot of time passing around ini files for Winboard, maybe >>there's a Winboard newsgroup, there's one for everything else. >> >>But we all have different path info, I have no intention of using the same paths >>as Frank Quinsinsky uses for example. I saw something that I liked where someone >>had all Winboard programs as subdirectories a a dir called c:\chesprog or >>something to that effect. >Perhaps, then, a database, which is modelled for all types of needed paramters >and has specific entries for different systems. It is a pain in the posterior >setting it up for twenty different chess programs so that all are getting what >they want. > >>We all need dif hashtable sizes too. Allot of this stuff is somewhat related to >>how more or less customizable Winboard is. >> >>BTW, what does that Popeye program do at your ftp? It's not in English so I >>didn't take any time to figure it out. >Popeye is a chess problem solver. It solves not only regular chess but also >fairy chess and a bunch of other variants. It has some fascinating concepts >(for instance, it dynmically changes the size of hash tables on the fly). Why do you call that a 'concept'? In my dictionary the word 'concept' is quite heavy translated as 'new approach' 'idea of getting further'. I don't see the new approach nor the futuristic advantage of something that's just 1 minute of work! >It has English instructions somewhere in the file.
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