| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Jorge Pichard
Joined: 09 Mar 2006
Posts: 2559
|
 Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:58 am Post subject: Will Winboard be as easy as Arena to install engines ? |
  |
|
| To me Winboard has an old way of installing programs just like comparing DOS to Windows. After all these years making different versions of Winboards why it could not be as easy as Arena to install and configure Engines? |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Adam Hair
Joined: 06 May 2009
Posts: 1658
Location: Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina
|
| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:16 am Post subject: Re: Will Winboard be as easy as Arena to install engines ? |
|
|
| pichy wrote: |
| To me Winboard has an old way of installing programs just like comparing DOS to Windows. After all these years making different versions of Winboards why it could not be as easy as Arena to install and configure Engines? |
For newer versions of Winboard with the tournament manager built in, it is about as simple as Arena to install and configure engines. It was not necessarily hard before. It just required more work from the user.
_________________
Adam's Computer Chess Pages |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
H.G.Muller
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
Posts: 12914
Location: Amsterdam
|
| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:54 am Post subject: Re: Will Winboard be as easy as Arena to install engines ? |
|
|
| pichy wrote: |
| To me Winboard has an old way of installing programs just like comparing DOS to Windows. After all these years making different versions of Winboards why it could not be as easy as Arena to install and configure Engines? |
What in the WinBoard engine install dialog shown below makes it more difficult / more DOS-like to operate for you than Arena?
Or for XBoard:
 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Pawel Koziol
Joined: 15 Jan 2007
Posts: 276
Location: Warsza
|
| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 1:05 pm Post subject: Re: Will Winboard be as easy as Arena to install engines ? |
|
|
I'm very happy to see new engine installation dialog  Ability to use UCI engines, though not exactly a recent news, is also nice.
One more question: is there a way to use UCI options dialog with WinBoard or a WinBoard protocol equivalent?
_________________
Pawel Koziol
http://www.pkoziol.cal24.pl/rodent/rodent.htm |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Roger Brown
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 563
|
| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:06 pm Post subject: Re: Will Winboard be as easy as Arena to install engines ? |
|
|
| PK wrote: |
I'm very happy to see new engine installation dialog Ability to use UCI engines, though not exactly a recent news, is also nice.
One more question: is there a way to use UCI options dialog with WinBoard or a WinBoard protocol equivalent? |
Hello Pawel,
Once the desired UCI engine is loaded, select Engine #1/Engine #2 settings.
That should get you the dialogue with all the settings to tweak.
There is a common engine settings under Options for globally setting EGTB path, hash size and book usage.
I hope that this helps.
Later. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Roger Brown
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 563
|
| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:09 pm Post subject: Re: Will Winboard be as easy as Arena to install engines ? |
|
|
| hgm wrote: |
What in the WinBoard engine install dialog shown below makes it more difficult / more DOS-like to operate for you than Arena?
|
Hello H.G.,
Perhaps he is not using a recent Winboard version or, as has happened more than once, perhaps he does not use Winboard at all but still criticises it...
Later. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
H.G.Muller
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
Posts: 12914
Location: Amsterdam
|
| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:34 pm Post subject: Re: Will Winboard be as easy as Arena to install engines ? |
|
|
[quote="PK"One more question: is there a way to use UCI options dialog with WinBoard or a WinBoard protocol equivalent?[/quote]
Of course! For many, many years already (since 2007 ?). E.g. for Stockfish:
 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Jorge Pichard
Joined: 09 Mar 2006
Posts: 2559
|
| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 12:11 am Post subject: Re: Will Winboard be as easy as Arena to install engines ? |
|
|
| Roger Brown wrote: |
| hgm wrote: |
What in the WinBoard engine install dialog shown below makes it more difficult / more DOS-like to operate for you than Arena?
|
Hello H.G.,
Perhaps he is not using a recent Winboard version or, as has happened more than once, perhaps he does not use Winboard at all but still criticises it...
Later. |
You are correct the last Winboard version that I installed was from 2006   |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Steven Atkinson
Joined: 13 Oct 2010
Posts: 453
Location: Australia
|
| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:57 am Post subject: Re: Will Winboard be as easy as Arena to install engines ? |
|
|
| hgm wrote: |
Or for XBoard:
|
I wonder is XBoard is the only currently maintained software that still uses the old X style scrollbars.
Using them makes me laugh a little, remembering my first Linux experiences, and thinking wtf these scrollbars did! If you don't have a 3 button mouse (which i didnt), you are particularly stuffed |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Roger Brown
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 563
|
| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:30 am Post subject: Re: Will Winboard be as easy as Arena to install engines ? |
|
|
| pichy wrote: |
| Roger Brown wrote: |
| hgm wrote: |
What in the WinBoard engine install dialog shown below makes it more difficult / more DOS-like to operate for you than Arena?
|
Hello H.G.,
Perhaps he is not using a recent Winboard version or, as has happened more than once, perhaps he does not use Winboard at all but still criticises it...
Later. |
You are correct the last Winboard version that I installed was from 2006 |
Hello Jorge,
2006?
That version is worse than archaic.
Please try the latest model.
The changes between that one and the 2006 (?) model are far too many to list here.
Later. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
