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[H.G.Muller]

Arghh! It seems that some of the latest code refactoring I did had broken UCI2WB for Shogi. (A patch to correct for a Shogi bug in a by now ancient WinBoard version contained a statement if(move[4] != LINEFEED) move[4] = '+'; to make sure no invalid promotion characters would be sent to the engine. But after refactoring, moves were no longer terminated by LINEFEED but by NULLCHAR, so any move sent to the engine would be suffixed by "+ove". Which most Shogi engines, including GPS Shogi, did not like at all...)

I replaced that broken UCI2WB version now in the WinBoard 4.6.2 installer package. With this new install it is possible to run GPS Shogi under WinBoard (like it was in older WB installs) using

Engine file (*.exe):

UCI2WB

Parameters:

-s gpsusi.exe "C:/Program Files/gpsshogi/smp" " byoyomi %d"

(The last parameter is unfortunately needed as a work-around for a non-compliancy in GPS Shogi, which does not understand the USI winc and binc commands, to run it with incremental time controls. The need for it prevents easy install by simply pointing out the engine's .exe file, and ticking the 'UCCI/USI' checkbox, which would automatically invoke UCI2WB with -s option in a WinBoard configured for Shogi (as opposed to Xiangqi, where it would invoke UCCI2WB instead).)