The King and Winboard

[Roger Brown]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Roger Brown at 25 June 2004 22:02:17:

Hello all,
I have a problem. Normally I have a a small army of consultants for these issues but Leo - who is about 99% of them - seems to be a wee bit busy (or tired of my bizarre requests for help) at this time.
Therefore I turn here for help.
I would like someone who has Windows XP on their machine to set up The King to use BookThinker with WBTM. I can use the King+BookThinker+Inbetween (for the hashsize parameter) with Winboard (/mg /tc /debug etc.) by itself just fine. No errors.
The King+BookThinker+Inbetween + Winboard + WBTM results in crashes. The peculiar thing is that it appears to be Inbetween that is crashing.
I am not particularly insistent on Inbetween. Should you have a way of making the King work with a direct line in the Winboard ini please feel free to post the exact line item from your working winboard ini. I will change the drive and the engine names.
My efforts to directly write the parameters in the winboard ini have resulted in an engine that plays with only 12 mb of hash which is perhaps the default engine size. I want 67 mb of hash in there.
No, I do not want to use any gui but Winboard.
No, not Arena, Chessbase, Chesspartner or even Chess Assistant.
Yes, I really want to use the King in automated winboard tournaments.
No, I do not want suggestions about where to go to. Been there. Done that.
Yes, I would really appreciate hearing from someone who actually got it to work on Windows XP.
Thanks.
Later.

[Lance Perkins]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Lance Perkins at 26 June 2004 01:29:42:
Als Antwort auf:/In reply to: The King and Winboard geschrieben von:/posted by: Roger Brown at 25 June 2004 22:02:17:

On those rare occasions where I use WinBoard instead of ThinkerBoard for a match, here is how a match TheKing against Thinker:
"C:\Program Files\WinBoard\winboard.exe" /fcp '"C:\Program Files\ThinkerBoard 1.1R\BookThinker.exe" "C:\Program Files\Chessmaster 8000\TheKing.exe "cm_parm myk=325484 opk=980736"' /debug
Notice how the entire argument to /fcp is enclosed in single quotes, and I don't need to use InBetween.
The quotes are confusing, so here is the simplified version (where you first copy all the files in one folder):
WinBoard.exe /fcp 'FirstProg' /scp 'SecondProg' /mg 100 /debug
Replace FirstProg (retain the single quotes) with:
BookThinker.exe TheKing.exe "cm_parm myk=539218 opk=980736"
so this becomes:
'BookThinker.exe TheKing.exe "cm_parm myk=325484 opk=980736"'

Hello all,
I have a problem. Normally I have a a small army of consultants for these issues but Leo - who is about 99% of them - seems to be a wee bit busy (or tired of my bizarre requests for help) at this time.
Therefore I turn here for help.
I would like someone who has Windows XP on their machine to set up The King to use BookThinker with WBTM. I can use the King+BookThinker+Inbetween (for the hashsize parameter) with Winboard (/mg /tc /debug etc.) by itself just fine. No errors.
The King+BookThinker+Inbetween + Winboard + WBTM results in crashes. The peculiar thing is that it appears to be Inbetween that is crashing.
I am not particularly insistent on Inbetween. Should you have a way of making the King work with a direct line in the Winboard ini please feel free to post the exact line item from your working winboard ini. I will change the drive and the engine names.
My efforts to directly write the parameters in the winboard ini have resulted in an engine that plays with only 12 mb of hash which is perhaps the default engine size. I want 67 mb of hash in there.
No, I do not want to use any gui but Winboard.
No, not Arena, Chessbase, Chesspartner or even Chess Assistant.
Yes, I really want to use the King in automated winboard tournaments.
No, I do not want suggestions about where to go to. Been there. Done that.
Yes, I would really appreciate hearing from someone who actually got it to work on Windows XP.
Thanks.
Later.

[Roger Brown]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Roger Brown at 26 June 2004 07:30:57:
Als Antwort auf:/In reply to: Re: The King and Winboard geschrieben von:/posted by: Lance Perkins at 26 June 2004 01:29:42: