I'm not interested in writing documentation for using Crafty with WinBoard, and I don't know the answer to the question at the end of this message, but maybe someone else on this list can help.
------- Forwarded Message Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:49:44 -0600 From: Stephen Tashiro <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Suggestion for Winboard/Crafty documentation Since I think that many would-be users of Winboard may spend hours trying to get Crafty to use his opening books, it would be helpful to publicize the following facts: 1. The book.bin and books.bin file on the Craty ftp site (both of which are needed in order to have Crafty play book moves) may not work with the Windows executable of Crafty (They don't under Windows 2000 and NTFS, which I have personally tired.) Windows users may use the directions in the Crafty documentation to create Windows compatible opening book files from pgn files such as enormous.pgn and start.pgn that are available on the Crafty ftp site. 2. When the Crafty is run (directly, not through Winboard) it opens a Command window. It will print error messages if it cannot find the book.bin and books.bin file. If you don't see these error messages then it found the files. 3. A winboard.ini entry (in the section /FirstChessProgramNames) like: "C:\Chess\Crafty\crafty-20.14.exe bookpath=C:\Chess\Crafty xboard" can work even though Crafty will look for file names with a forward slash in them, such as C:\Chess\Crafty/book.bin. According the Wikipedia, the Windows API does recognize the forward slash as a divider in file names, unlike DOS. If Crafty isn't finding files, the problem isn't that the names have a forward slash in them. In the trial and error discovering these facts, I clutter up the Winboard directory with game and log files that I don't really want to save. Is there an winboard.ini entry that would let me save games and logs to a different directory? ------- End of Forwarded Message -- Tim Mann [email protected] http://tim-mann.org/ _______________________________________________ XBoard-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xboard-devel
