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Subject: Re: People who write winboard compatible engines: some questions

Author: Andrew Dados

Date: 22:12:32 08/13/99

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On August 13, 1999 at 15:42:45, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On August 13, 1999 at 15:18:40, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>
>>
>>On August 13, 1999 at 14:18:05, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>What are the pieces of data you need to put in an ini file or to read from the
>>>command line.  I'll get it started:
>>>0.  Pawn hash
>>>1.  Hash
>>>2.  Executable location
>>>3.  Tablebase location
>>>...
>>>?
>>
>>The engines' init files are not a standard, each engine has its own format and
>>content. Some do even not use an init file. Consult the readme file of the
>>engine you are interested in (or ask the author).
>That's exactly the problem.  I want to write a database interface for Winboard
>so that all of that can be standardized.  I don't want to be forced to read the
>documentation for every engine and do a hundred little tweaks.

  I need to notice executable location you can get at runtime via windoze API
function. Book file name + location is way more important info as well as some
boolean parameters like learning/pondering etc. Of course programmers come up
with zillions variables/tweaks stored in ini files, so I admire your goal.
Now imagine cool idea of cooking opponents ini file by some engine due to
'standarization' :)

-Andrew-



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