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Subject: Re: Amateur chess program released

Author: Djordje Vidanovic

Date: 08:51:37 02/15/00

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On February 15, 2000 at 10:53:00, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:

>On February 14, 2000 at 21:24:53, Andrei Fortuna wrote:
>
>>Hello my friends,
>>
>>I'm proud to announce the release of my chess program Freyr (nick Freyr on FICS)
>>on my homepage at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/3716/ (source code
>>included, no opening book available yet for download because of limited account
>>space). It is a hobby project of mine, greatly inspired from the discussions on
>>this board. A milion thanks to Mr. Robert Hyatt for his inspirational posts on
>>rgcc and here, without them I'm sure I wouldn't have gotten so far.
>>
>>Some of Freyr's features : opening book, pondering, hash tables, pawn hash
>>tables, killers and history, move ordering, bitboards, null move, check &
>>recapture on the same square extensions. It's WinBoard friendly, including
>>position setup and analyze mode.
>>
>>Best Regards,
>>Andrei
>
>Hello,
>
>Thanks for the program.  However, just like Dann, I haven't been able to hook it
>up to Winboard.  I used the usual combos, such as "freyr xboard", "freyr wb",
>"freyr -x", etc. and the program just sat there, pondering its next move and
>never playing it.  I get it to work only in text mode.  So, what is your syntax,
>please?
>
>*** Djordje


I've found out how to make if run.  The command line should be "freyr -xboard"
:-) not the "freyr xboard" as I thought.  Have fun.  PS:  First impressions:
fine, expert strength program.


***  Djordje



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