honestly said, the Rasbojnik Clojure projekt https://github.com/edlich/rasbojnik - http://clojure.org/ is surely incomplete because of the content of Rasbojnik Usage:
How to install and run the program:
Download and install arena
Have Clojure 1.4 installed (might run with earlier versions too)
Clone this repository
Try if everything works by hand:
Copy the rasbojnik.bat into the src dir
run the script (currently windows, other OS wrap the equivalent content of the script)
enter uci and then quit, If the program responds with three lines everything is fine
In Arena manage the motor (F11) (or start the debug window F4)
In the details tab of the motor insert a new motor and select the rasbojnik script (type UCI)
Select the motor in the left tab (loaded motors)
select your rasbojnik.bat under the /src dir!
make sure that java.ex is in the path
(select fixed ply search as e.g. 4 because anything else is not implemented yet
play! (up to now opening moves)
1) You cannot play a mode vs. engine like 40 moves / 20 minutes or 30 min totally for the whole game.
2) The phrase ""copy the rasbojnik.bat into the src dir" appears unclear : is the directory just clojure-1.5.1 or clojure-1.5.1/src
3) run the script ~ Rasbojnik.bat !?
What´s your opinion about? Exists Rasbojnik really as an option for a serious chessplayer or is the user only treated like a "guinea pig" (French: "cobaye" - German: "Versuchskaninchen") because of the documentation on https://github.com/edlich/rasbojnik/wiki and a cumberstone configuration installing Rasbojnik under Arena-GUI.
My suggestion: a complete Rasbojnik package (including Clojure) that runs correctly without "the ifs and buts" hosted on GitHub for download would be surely an improvement compared with the status quo. And last not least: The Rasbojnik "D-language " version is mentioned on http://prof.beuth-hochschule.de/edlich/ ... rasbojnik/ and described with "partial UCI protocol support"
Best wishes,
Norbert
