Yes, Winboard_x can not make match between 2 engines (local) to play Chess960, however to play in ICC is correct. You need polyglot + Glaurung.
I have also played with Arena 1.1 and went well. Arena is bug with UCI Chess960, you could also use with polyglot and protocol xboard.
Operator wanted for the Chess960 WC qualification
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Re: Operator wanted for the Chess960 WC qualification
Thanks Pedro !pedrox wrote:Yes, Winboard_x can not make match between 2 engines (local) to play Chess960, however to play in ICC is correct. You need polyglot + Glaurung.
I have also played with Arena 1.1 and went well. Arena is bug with UCI Chess960, you could also use with polyglot and protocol xboard.
ICS support of Arena 1.1 is not bugfree. Thus Winboard_x (or even Winboard_F) would be my choice.
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Re: Operator wanted for the Chess960 WC qualification
Thanks, Olivier!Olivier Deville wrote:I like to operate engines and I think I have nothing to do on June 27th-28th. I can run Glaurung on a Dual Opteron 252 with Windows XP Pro 64 as an OS.
I have never tried the chess960 variant though and I hope it works fine under Winboard_x. Therefore tests would be needed. Otherwise we can try another GUI of course.
If other people are interested in operating Glaurung, feel free to say so, I don't mean to close the offer
It would be very nice if you could operate Glaurung in the Chess960 tournament. If you are still interested, I'll try to get a Windows binary of the most recent development version ready before the 27th.
However, I should inform you that I am no longer quite sure I can go to Mainz in August, even if I succeed in qualifying. It looks like August will be a busy month for me this year. This may have some importance to you, because according to the information on the tournament page, you won't get your prize money unless I go to Mainz.
At the moment, I hope I'll be able to participate (if I succeed in qualifying, of course), but I can't promise anything yet.
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Re: Operator wanted for the Chess960 WC qualification
Hi TordTord Romstad wrote:Thanks, Olivier!Olivier Deville wrote:I like to operate engines and I think I have nothing to do on June 27th-28th. I can run Glaurung on a Dual Opteron 252 with Windows XP Pro 64 as an OS.
I have never tried the chess960 variant though and I hope it works fine under Winboard_x. Therefore tests would be needed. Otherwise we can try another GUI of course.
If other people are interested in operating Glaurung, feel free to say so, I don't mean to close the offer
It would be very nice if you could operate Glaurung in the Chess960 tournament. If you are still interested, I'll try to get a Windows binary of the most recent development version ready before the 27th.
However, I should inform you that I am no longer quite sure I can go to Mainz in August, even if I succeed in qualifying. It looks like August will be a busy month for me this year. This may have some importance to you, because according to the information on the tournament page, you won't get your prize money unless I go to Mainz.
At the moment, I hope I'll be able to participate (if I succeed in qualifying, of course), but I can't promise anything yet.
Tord
Yes indeed I am still interested in operating Glaurung, as I enjoy such events. And really I don't care for money prizes, the money would be for you anyway (I have too much of it here actually).
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