Help with the colchess.ini

[Oscar Diez Cazon]

I'm not able to "Colchess 8" load her book under winboard.
In console mode, must be happy and load it

I appreciated any kind of help...

Excuse my very poor english...

Thanks in advance

[Guenther Simon]

I'm not able to "Colchess 8" load her book under winboard.
In console mode, must be happy and load it

I appreciated any kind of help...

Excuse my very poor english...

Thanks in advance

Would you please show the content of your
colchess.ini file?

Regards,
Guenther

[Oscar Diez Cazon]

the content is very simple:

Book


(book is for activated or disabled book, and I prove with or without it, I'm gonna crazy .... )

Could you write here an example of colchess.ini?

Excuse my very poor english....

and .... thanks in advance

[Guenther Simon]

the content is very simple:

Book


(book is for activated or disabled book, and I prove with or without it, I'm gonna crazy .... )

Could you write here an example of colchess.ini?

Excuse my very poor english....

and .... thanks in advance

Hi Oscar,

Ok then the problem is easily solved

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Book

is no regular content for a ColChess.ini file.

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COLCHESS_PATH=.
HASH=16 [0 to 16]
BOOK=1 [0 or 1]
LEARN=1 [0 or 1]

Above you see a regular ini file, just change
all values to what you need.
Note that '.' at the path variable just means
same folder as exe file and all other files,
of course you can also give the full absolute
path here, as C:\Winboard\Oscar\Engines... etc.
(just an example)
(May be the path variable is obsolete at all meanwhile...)

Not your fault BTW as I see that the author doesn't provide
an ini file example anymore. (There is still one though at
Dann Corbits site though under:
http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/colchess/
but I guess this is kind of expert knowledge )

Best regards,
Guenther

P.S. If there should be still a problem with book usage
don't bother to ask again!

[Roger Brown]

P.S. If there should be still a problem with book usage
don't bother to ask again!

Hello Guenther,

Translated the above really means:

Should you still have a problem with book usage, please do not hesitate to ask again.



Later.

[Guenther Simon]

P.S. If there should be still a problem with book usage
don't bother to ask again!

Hello Guenther,

Translated the above really means:

Should you still have a problem with book usage, please do not hesitate to ask again.



Later.

Oh I am sorry, I guess ' don't bother _and_ ask again'
makes more sense instead of what I wrote.
My only excuse is that Andrew spread 'his flu' around with
a new version of Firefly

Best regards,
Guenther

[Oscar Diez Cazon]

Thanks for your effords but Colchess 8 has a head like a nut, and doesn't like the mixture (winboard+own book)

This is the colchess.ini

COLCHESS_PATH=.
HASH=1 [0 to 16]
BOOK=1 [0 or 1]
LEARN=0 [0 or 1]

I prove with hash 1-16 ,learn 0-1, and nothing in the morning (and the afternoon, and the evening)... (suspiro)

Excuse my very poor english....

And thanks again...

[Guenther Simon]

Thanks for your effords but Colchess 8 has a head like a nut, and doesn't like the mixture (winboard+own book)

This is the colchess.ini

COLCHESS_PATH=.
HASH=1 [0 to 16]
BOOK=1 [0 or 1]
LEARN=0 [0 or 1]

I prove with hash 1-16 ,learn 0-1, and nothing in the morning (and the afternoon, and the evening)... (suspiro)

Excuse my very poor english....

And thanks again...

Have you tried the full path too instead of the relative
path in my example?
e.g. C:\xxxx\xxx\...

Of course I assume you have the book file in the same
folder. (Is it really a ColChess book BTW?)

I never had any problem with ColChess books.

Guenther

Additional note -> Here is my ColChess folder:

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 Volume in drive C:\ is DURST
 Directory of C:\WB\All\ColChess_80DC\

book.dat                       2451 KB   10.09.2001
chessdat.dat                      2 KB   17.08.2000
COLCHESS.INI                      1 KB   06.10.2006
colchess_80DC.exe               205 KB   10.11.2001
CYGWIN1.DLL                     752 KB   26.02.2002
README                           16 KB   17.08.2000
README.txt                       14 KB   16.10.2001


  7 file(s)
  Total filesize 3436 KB
  8265656 kilobytes free


[Oscar Diez Cazon]

I've tried again with your

the unique difference that I see is the executable (I've had the Colin Fran without the Cygwin.dll)
Other difference is that I have an poor old Pentium MMX 166

Thanks

[Oscar Diez Cazon]

've tried again like you explain me...

And Colchess doesn't read the book...(suspiro)

the unique difference that I see is the executable (I've had the Colin Fran without the Cygwin.dll)
Other difference is that I have an poor old Pentium MMX 166 with 32Mb RAM

Thanks in advance