Newsgroup: it.hobby.scacchi
Titolo: Winboard

Buongiorno, volevo chiedervi se possibile di dirmi dove posso trovare
winboard, come lo devo installare o altro, perchè lo ho già scaricato ma non
sono convinto che sia quello, e poi faccio casini ovunque. Un grazie
anticipato a chi mi risponde! (sapreste dirmi anche dove posso trovare le
varie interfaccie o come si chiamano?).

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www.freechess.org
 
li clicchi su download e ti ritrovi nella lista dei client o
interfaccie.
Bada che Winboard non e' solo per giocare contro il computer, ma e'
anche editor, client per giocare su internet, e fa giocare su internet
il tuo programma scacchistico (se e' compatibile winboard). 
per installare Winboard clicca sul file che hai scaricato e
automaticamente si installa da solo.
Quando hai scaricato Winboard puoi usare di default gnuchess che e'
un'ottima engine (programma che gioca a scacchi) ma ti consiglio
fortemente di settare per giocare contro crafty.
una volta che hai installato Winboard (tipicamente in
C:\Programmi\WinBoard
1) copia crafty nella directory (Wcrafty o Wcrafty18.exe ...la
versione
che hai scaricato... )
2) apri Winboard.ini nella directory dove hai installato winboard, e 
	dove trovi :
 
	/firstChessProgramNames={GNUChess
	WCrafty-15_11 /fd="C:\Program Files\Crafty"
	ArasanX /fd="C:\Program Files\Arasan\Arasan 4.1"
	"EXchess xb" /fd=C:\EXchess
	Comet-WB /fd=C:\Comet
	}
aggiungi con ll'engine che vuoi.... 
3) DATO CHE winboard ti permette di caricare 2 engine
contemporaneamente per fare giocare engine contro engine oltre che
uomo contro engine, fai le stesse operazioni per  il
/secondchessprogram...
E + SEMPLICE se copi l'engine crafty (l'eseguibile.exe) nella
directory Winboard e elimini il path WCrafty-15_11 
eliminado : /fd="C:\Program Files\Crafty" come vedi qui
sotto
/firstChessProgramNames={GNUChess
WCrafty-15_11 
ArasanX /fd="C:\Program Files\Arasan\Arasan 4.1"
"EXchess xb" /fd=C:\EXchess
Comet-WB /fd=C:\Comet
}
Gli altri nomi sono programmi che noon ottieni di default ma ti devi
scaricare
stai attento se con crafty ti sei scaricato anche il BOOK di aperture
copia il book di aperture nella directory diwinboard.
Se poi non sei soddisfatto cosi' leggi attentamente i README dei file
di crafty e winboard. (l'help di Winboard e' completo in inglese
leggilo attentamente per qualsiasi problema)
Dopo che hai scaricato winboard nel sito di tin-mann
noterai che ci sono i collegamenti per scaricare una ventina trentina
di engine compatibili con Winboard
dopo che hai scaricato l'engine e l'interfaccia grafica 
ti consiglio se vuoi "studiare" dei database scacchistici di scaricare
Scid che gestisce enormi database (anche quelli te li devi scaricare)
il tutto free senza spendere una lira, la differenza con i programmi
commerciali e' appunto nella comodita' di non dover editare con un
programmino il file winboard.ini etc. etc.. ma se vuoi acquiastare
qualcosa allora i consigli fatteli dare in un negozio specializzazto
ciao enrico (acconcio/fics)
ti allego la pagina di aiuto di Winboard per installare le chess
engine se scarichi Winboard la trovi in formato help di window molto
meglio se te la leggi li.
INSTALLING CHESS ENGINES
Introduction
WinBoard is capable of operating with many different chess engines.
You can play chess against a compatible engine, set up matches between
two engines, or (advanced users only) run an automated computer player
on an ICS.
Typically, the main difficulty in installing a new chess engine for
use by WinBoard comes in getting the engine itself running and setting
its options appropriately. The connection to WinBoard is relatively
straightforward.
WinBoard-compatible chess engines are Win32 command line programs that
you can run by hand in an MS-DOS Prompt box and type human-readable
commands to. WinBoard connects to an engine simply by starting the
engine up in the background and communicating with it through a pair
of pipes. Therefore the basic procedure for installing an engine is:
1. Get a copy of the engine and any supporting files it needs.
2. Install and configure the engine as a command-line program by
following the instructions that come with it. Try it out by running it
from the command line in an MS-DOS Prompt box and make sure it works.
3. Optional, but recommended: Try out the WinBoard plus engine
combination by running WinBoard with the proper command line arguments
in an MS-DOS Prompt box.
4. Create a shortcut on your desktop or Start menu to run the engine
with WinBoard.
5. Optionally edit your WinBoard.ini file to add the engine to the
drop-down lists on WinBoard's startup dialog.
This document cannot explain steps 1 and 2 in detail for all engines,
but we will take you through all five steps in outline, using Crafty
as an example.
Example: Crafty
1. Choose a directory to put Crafty in. We'll use C:\Program
Files\Crafty in this example. Download your copy of Crafty into this
directory from its author's FTP site, 
ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt
.
At this writing, you will need at least the following files:
read.me
v15/crafty.doc
v15/crafty.faq
v15/wcrafty-15.*.exe (where * is replaced by the largest number there)
common/start.zip
common/medium.zip (or another book).
2. The first three files are documentation that you can read with a
text editor. Read the 
read.me
 file first and follow the instructions
carefully. This will take some time. Do not write to the author of
WinBoard if you have trouble with the instructions in the Crafty
read.me
. Try running Crafty from an MS-DOS Prompt box and make sure it
works before you go on.
3. Optional, but recommended: In an MS-DOS Prompt box, cd to the
directory where WinBoard is installed, typically "C:\Program
Files\WinBoard". Then type the following command line. Use the actual
name of the wcrafty file you downloaded, not an *, and if your browser
changed the first period to an underscore when you downloaded the
file, make that change in the command line too.
WinBoard /cp /fcp=WCrafty-15.* /fd="C:\Program Files\Crafty"
/scp=WCrafty-15.* /sd="C:\Program Files\Crafty"
WinBoard should start up, with Crafty running as its chess engine.
Check that you can play chess against Crafty.
4. To make a shortcut or Start menu entry for Crafty: Right-click on
the desktop and select New/Shortcut. Use the Browse button to find
your winboard.exe file and get its name into the Command Line box. (It
usually will be "C:\Program Files\WinBoard\winboard.exe".) Click in
the Command Line box and hit the End key to go to the end. Add the
following to the end of the command line, after the closing quotation
mark. Use the actual name of the wcrafty file you downloaded, not an
*, and if your browser changed the first period to an underscore when
you downloaded the file, make that change in the command line too.
/cp /fcp=WCrafty-15.* /fd="C:\Program Files\Crafty" 
/scp=WCrafty-15.* /sd="C:\Program Files\Crafty"
Press Next, choose a name for the shortcut, and press Finish. You can
now use this shortcut to run WinBoard with Crafty. Double-click it to
check that it works. You can drag or copy the shortcut into your Start
menu if you like.
5. To add Crafty as an option in the WinBoard Startup dialog, edit
your WinBoard.ini file with Notepad or another plain text editor,
carefully following the example shown under /firstChessProgramNames
above.
For more information
If you would like to run an automated computer player on the ICS, see
the separate file zippy.README. If you would like to write your own
engine to interface to WinBoard, see the separate file
engine-intf.html, and join the mailing list mentioned there. Both
files are included in the WinBoard distribution. You might also want
to get the source code for WinBoard. It is available from the author's
Web page, 
http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html
.