Dear XBoard-Developers,
thank you for awesome work in creating an open-source cross platform
chess variant GUI.
I tried setting up the UCI-chess variant engine
*/Multi-Variant-Stockfish/* (https://github.com/ddugovic/Stockfish)
and the neural network engine /*CrazyAra*/
(https://github.com/QueensGambit/CrazyAra) using the python version in
XBoard to play crazyhouse.
However, I encountered the following error messages for both of them:
/*"Error: Variant crazyhouse not supported by <engine-name>"*/
although both them actually support the variant.
This is the configuration that I chose: *Engine->Edit Engine List...*
"stockfish-x86_64-modern" -fcp
"/home/queensgambit/Programs/cz_engines/stockfish/stockfish-x86_64-modern"
-fd "/home/queensgambit/Programs/cz_engines/stockfish" -fUCI
"CrazyAra-0.5.1" -fcp "/home/queensgambit/anaconda3/bin/python
crazyara.py" -fd
"/home/queensgambit/Desktop/CrazyAra_0.5.1_RiseV2_mobile" -fn
"CrazyAra-0.5.1" -fUCI -variant crazyhouse
After I added
-firstProtocolVersion 1
to the configuration of CrazyAra, I didn't encounter the error, but
CrazyAra exited after the first move.
Did I miss a certain setting or could this be a bug in XBoard?
More details can also be found at:
* https://github.com/QueensGambit/CrazyAra/issues/23
Best regards,
Johannes Czech
