Fritz question

[Gabor Szots]

Do you know a way to pass a command line parameter to Fritz when installing an engine? E.g. Absolute Zero requires '-u' in the command line but Fritz does not seem to accept it.

[hgm]

I think people make a batch file containing the engine command, and use that as an engine. It should also be possible to do this with InBetween as adapter.

[Gabor Szots]

I think people make a batch file containing the engine command, and use that as an engine. It should also be possible to do this with InBetween as adapter.

Unfortunately Fritz does not accept batch files.

[hgm]

Ah. But InBetween should still work. What I remember of it is that you can put the executable in the engine's directory, and invoke it there without arguments. It then reads an ini file in that directory which specifies what engine to run and where. You can also define all kind of substitutions in the commands that go back and forth, but you won't need that.

[Gabor Szots]

Ah. But InBetween should still work. What I remember of it is that you can put the executable in the engine's directory, and invoke it there without arguments. It then reads an ini file in that directory which specifies what engine to run and where. You can also define all kind of substitutions in the commands that go back and forth, but you won't need that.

Thank you HG.

[Gabor Szots]

Your InBetween suggestion works. And I have found another way. I have created an eng file manually, here is how it looks (example using Pedantic):

[ENGINE]
Name=Pedantic 0.2.1 64-bit
Author=JoAnn D. Peeler
Filename=E:\Sakk\UCI-engines\Pedantic\Pedantic_0.2.1-x64.exe
Parameter=uci
[OPTIONS]
OwnBook=false
MaxThreads=1

Fritz is able to read that file and run the engine. I did not know that the line 'Parameter=...' can be used with Fritz as well, I borrowed the idea from the Shredder GUI.