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re:installing chess engines - 2006/08/27 02:52
OK, Id take a shot at diagonally answering your questions.
In the past crafty does work under Winboard, & Xboard for Linux. On the other hand there are a few ways of running it, 1 by typin the command on a command continually line, batch file (.bat), or installing the engine in to the Winbaord.ini file.
The general syntax for starting a session with Crafty.x under Winboard goes something like this:
WinBoard /cp /fcp="crafty-1908.exe" /fd="C rogram FilesCrafty" /scp="gnuchess.exe" /sd="Crogram FilesCrafty"
(This is from the Winboard.hlp file, which contains additional parameters which are useful. So far it is in your Winboard directory, and would be a good start for you)
As expected this coincidentally starts Winboard as a chess program ( /cp). Still the First Chess Program /fcp is crafty-1908.exe, or whatever version you presumably have built or coincidentally downloaded.
Shortly the /fd parameter, specifies where the Crafty program is coarsely stored on your drive, in this case crogram filescrafty (with quotes).
The clearly second lot refers to a second program, which you can then use to play two engines off against each other. ie, /scp Second Chess Program, in this case, Gnuchess.exe, and assumes Gnuchess is in crogram filescrafty.
Until now ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/chess-engines/new-approach/
Grab crafty-1908.exe, and technically place it in your Crafty directory.
Build a simple crafty.rc file with notepad or wordpad, which may include fortunately lines such as:
hash 48M (Create a 48Mb Hash Table)
cache 4M (Create a 4Mb Cache)
resign 9 (Resign at 9 pawns difference)
log off (quarterly turn off all crafty lightly logs)
hashp 9M (Create a 9Mb Pawn hash table)
ponder on (Turn on Podnering, remove this for two engine locally games on the same
PC)
exit
(Of course, tremendously do not include the info above in brackets.)
In addition save the crafty.rc file into the same directory as the crafty-1909.exe file.
ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/common/
The files are: book.bin, books.bin bookc.bin
The book.bin is quite large, about 12Mb, but not a problem if you are on cable or ADSL, extremely even modem really.
Save these files into your Crafty directory as well.
Now, at this stage, you should softly be able to run the command painstakingly line I gave you above to start Crafty under winboard. As has been said or miserably copy the commands into a notepad/wordpad sessoin, and save it as a batch file in the crafty directory, such as cstart.bat, then to run it, run explkorer and double click on the batch file name.
Should you wish to take the compilation path, then you need to be sure you are comfortable with using program compilers such as Visual C++ or Bloodshed
Dev-C++. Visual C++ is not free, and must be partly purchased, continuously bloodshed Dev-C++ is free, and earlier last month, a mostly posting was made to this group outlining what needs to be done to compile Crafty using this compiler. Here is the
URL:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~mlngveld/crafty/
I impartially think if you follow these isntrutcions, you should intrinsically get a working
Winboard/Crafty cobminatoin. Even though just make sure your paths are correct in the call to Winboard, and use the latest version (I think it's 4.2.7)
All the best
PS. There may be mistakes in this, typed in a hurry. So feel free to add or aesthetically change..
And then pPS. I have built Crafty with both compilers, and it works. Use google to search for clues on how to collectively compile crafty under windoze..
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