Copyright: (c) 1999 Lokasoft
Citation: (c) 1999 Lokasoft


Winboard engine adapter

The engine plug-in module allows the use of winboard compatible chess engines with ChessPartner 4.1. From the dropdown box you can select which engine to use.

Use the Edit profile button to modify the settings for the engine profile.

You may get a error message asking to edit the engine profile, responding yes

brings up the plug-in profile selection dialog. Select crafty or gnuchess, you must edit the profile for the location of crafty or gnuchess.

In this release the profile is store in a simple text file, each engine profile start with a line [name] where name is CRAFTY, GNUCHESS, etc.

The file is located in the windows directory and called:

  ENGINEEXT.INI

Make sure to save the settings !

Below this line there are a number of parameters that can be set, the most important are the first four:

Console=1

Logfile="engineext.log"

EngineDir=""

EnginePath="f:\crafty\wcrafty-15_14.exe"

If console is set to 1 all commands that are send to the engine are displayed in a console window. Set this to 0 to hide the console window.

Logfile=... if a filename is given all commands are also saved in this file, useful for debugging. If left blank no logging is done.

EngineDir specifies the directory where the engine is to be runned from. If left blank the directory of the program is used.

EnginePath is the command line used to start the engine, must be a full path name.

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Known problems.

For a number of features ChessPartner relies on functions in the chess engine, e.g. the opening book display and some others. These functions are not present in other chess engines so these functions are disabled.

Testing has mainly been done using crafty.

On occasions the chess engine does not exit.

Not all ChessPartner levels are interpreted correctly.

DISCLAIMER

THE WINBOARD ADAPTER IS UNSUPPORTED SOFTWARE. WE HAVE INCLUDED IT IN THE HOPE SOMEONE FINDS IT USEFULL. AS ITS OPERATION RELIES ON SOFTWARE OUTSITE OUR CONTROL WE CAN NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTY OF ITS PROPER FUNCTIONING.