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- ChessPartner 4.1 engine plug-in module
- ---------------------------------------------
- March 1999
-
- The engine plug-in module allows the use of
- winboard compatible chess engines with
- ChessPartner 4.1
-
- After the installation start ChessPartner
- Select Extra|Options on the Chess engine
- tab click the Engine button, there should
- be a entry "Winboard adapter" in the
- dropdown list. This selects the plug-in
- module. You may get a error message asking
- to edit the engine profile, responding yes
- brings up the plug-in profile selection
- dialog. Select crafy 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 a commands
- are also saved in this file, usefull 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 occassions the chess engine does not
- exit.
-
- Not all chesspartner levels are interpreted
- correctly.
-
- In the crafty profile pondering has been
- disabled, this was neccessary to get the
- analyse game function to work reliable.
-
- 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.
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