Winboard Forum

Hello everyone,

I want to annouce the first public release of King's Out. I have already annouced it at CCC a few days ago, but also want to post it here.

Please have a look at

http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~nuerberg/

It's a chess engine, written in Java. It has three interfaces: XBoard (the most important ), and native text/graphical UI.

See README for some more details.

Would be great if you could post a comment on it and report bugs if any should be encountered.

Regards,

Bernd

Thank you very much for your engine. I've already downlaoded it yesterday and have some problem to start it with xboard.

I tried

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 xb -fcp ./polyglot -fd ~/schach/smash -scp ./'java -jar kingsout.jar -X' -sd ~/schach/kingsout -mg 4 -debug

(xb is an alias for "xboard... lots of options").

I always get

xboard: Error writing to second chess program: Broken pipe

Maybe someone who has successfully started your engine on Winboard or Xboard can post the command line here.


Regards

Volker

Hello Volker,

I updated the engine 2 times the last 2 days. Maybe you still have version 0.2.37, that was really buggy in respect to the XBoard protocol. I'm using XBoard 4.2.7 under Fedore Linux here without any problems. For my last test, I used the following command line, that worked perfectly:

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xboard -size medium -tc 3:00 -mm -mg 10 -fcp "java -jar /home/cip/nuerberg/chess/kingsout-0.2.39/kingsout.jar" -scp phalanx

Maybe you should omit the -sd option and give the absolute path of the jar-file, as above ??

Hope, that helps... if not, please post again or drop me a line per mail.

Kind regards,

Bernd

I see a decisive difference in your commandline compared to Volkers.
You have omitted the '-X' arg. Is this only necessary for WB?
In this case this was the error in Volkers commandline.

Best regards,
Guenther

Guenther Simon wrote:I see a decisive difference in your commandline compared to Volkers.
You have omitted the '-X' arg. Is this only necessary for WB?
In this case this was the error in Volkers commandline.

Best regards,
Guenther

Hello Guenther,

the -X argument to my engine is obsolete from version 0.2.39, but was necessary until version 0.2.38 to enter XBoard mode. 0.2.39 enters XBoard mode by default. But I'm almost sure that the -X argument does not cause any problems here.

Greetings,
Bernd

Thanks for your replies. I'lll try again tomorrow and willl let you know. Just to tired right now.

Volker

As so often the bug was sitting 60 cm afar from the monitor. The solution has already been posted:

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-fcp "java -jar...

is a big difference to:

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-fcp ./'java -jar ...

Java is of course not installed in Kings out's directory. Without "./" it is working fine using the usual syntax.

Regards

Volker

New Windows exe for King's Out 0.2.3.9.



This fixes some compatibility issues
(last version would only run on ntfs file
systems - (2k/Xp)

This version tested working ok on Win98
as well - (fat32).

Winboard only - built-in gui and text mode
does not function - use Java version if you
want this.

Will be uploaded to my homepage soon, but
in the meantime get it here >

http://www.rapidsharing.com/b54fd4231f1 ... 6423258916

Jim.