The engine command line for ChessV 0.94 has to be:Carlos777 wrote:Not working under Arena: (if someone has an idea on how to make them work, please reply)
ChessV 0.94
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ChessV_WinBoard "Orthodox Chess"
Possible work-arounds are:
1) Put that command line in a batch file chessv.bat, and then install that batch file as an engine in Arena.
2) Make a ChessV .SGF file (saved-game file), say CHESS.SGF for the initial position of Orthodox Chess by saving from the stand-alone version of ChessV, or read the instructions that come with ChessV on how to make such a file for specifying variants, and follow those. Then install ChessV in Arena with the engine command:
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ChessV_WinBoard CHESS.SGF
Even under WinBoard + PSWBTM I have to use the latter trick to make ChessV play Bird's Chess, as I have found no way yet to get the single quote in the variant name into the engine command line. With a bare WinBoard I can use /fcp={ChessV_WinBoard "Bird's Chess"}, but PSWBTM puts single quotes around the /fcp argument, and that is what makes WinBoard choke on it.