What is the best GUI for RobboLitto and Toga the Killer?

[beachknight]

Whatever by Chessbase - Deep Rybka 3, Fritz 11 or 12 etc.

C'mon Pavel. We have even not found a way to get working crafty x64
native chessbase engine in those w32 GUIs.

Best,

[Uri]

OK, the link I gave was to an alpha version, so it comes a bit raw from there. Sorry about that. I had not realized you had no experience with earlier WinBoard versions.

Robbolitto is UCI, not? Then you also need Polyglot, which you should obtain from here. Put it in the same folder as where you put the winboard.exe and robbolitto.exe.

To run Robbolitto oy then should start up WinBoard. This will bring up the startup dialog, where you can specify which engine you want to use. In the "First Engine" field you then would type

robbolito.exe -fUCI

and when you press OK this shoud start up WinBoard with Robbolitto as engine. Make sure the engine-output window is open when you start analyzing.

I typed in robbolito.exe -fUCI but all I get is C:\Program~2\WinBoard\EXECUT~1\\polygot_1st.ini':The system cannot find the file specified.

[hgm]

That is really weird. The version of WinBoard I gave the link to should not know anything about polyglot_1st.ini whatsoever.

What version does it indicate in the "Help -> About WinBoard" menu?

[Uri Blass]

What is the best GUI for RobboLitto and Toga the Killer?

I want a GUI which in the analysis will show all the lines and not just one.

No gui is going to help you if you use a program that does not support multi-pv and based on my knolwedge the program that you want to use does not support multi-pv so you cannot see more than one pv of the best move.

[Uri]

That is really weird. The version of WinBoard I gave the link to should not know anything about polyglot_1st.ini whatsoever.

What version does it indicate in the "Help -> About WinBoard" menu?

In the About WinBoard window it's written version 4.20091217.

But in the Windboard startup dialog when I put in robbolito.exe -fUCI I get the message: "Startup failure on 'polygot -noini -ec robbolito.exe -ed':The system cannot find the file specified.

It is also unable to active the Help menu. When I press F1 it gives me the message: "Unable to active help".

I'm using Windows 7 64 bit so maybe this version of Winboard is simply not compatible with the Windows I'm using?

[hgm]

Windows 7 or 64-bit should not be a problem. But the error message you mention now is a different one than in your previous post. Indeed the help file was not included. The ink I gave you was only the winboard.exe latest version, intended for replacing an older winboard.exe for people who already had a fully installed WinBoard. But I don't think the help file would help you much here.

The error message you post now indicates that the polygot executable is not in the same folder as WinBoard, or is not called as WinBoard expects it. Do you have a polyglot.exe in the same folder as winboard.exe and robbolito.exe? Perhaps you have to rename it to polyglot.exe, if it is called differently. If there is a polyglot.exe, the error message you posted last should no longer occur. (Of course there could still be a different error message if robbolito.exe itself does not exist there.)

Unfortunately I have not have time yet to make an installer with this latest version. In a few days, perhaps.

[Uri]

The polygot file was named polygot1.4.55b so I renamed it to polygot.exe. I also renamed the original RobboLito_0085e4_x64 file to RobboLito.exe and the Winboard file to Winboard.exe.

I put all the three files in a folder named Executables and then opened the Winboard startup dialog window and put in what you said: robbolito.exe -fUCI but it doesn't work and I get the same error: "Startup failure on 'polygot -noini -ec robbolito.exe -ed':The system cannot find the file specified." I also tried putting in different combinations like robbolito.exe /fUCI and RobboLito.exe /fUCI and without the space robbolito.exe/fUCI and RobboLito.exe/fUCI but I still get an error with "the system cannot find the file specified." I don't know why it does that.

Anyway thanks alot for the help H.G.Muller but I think I'll give up now.

[Michel]

There must be something trivially wrong. Normally the following
should work from a windows command shell (cmd.exe)

winboard.exe -fcp robbolito.exe -fUCI

provided polyglot.exe, winboard.exe and robbolito.exe are all in the current
directory.

Can you test this?

[Uri]

There must be something trivially wrong. Normally the following
should work from a windows command shell (cmd.exe)

winboard.exe -fcp robbolito.exe -fUCI

provided polyglot.exe, winboard.exe and robbolito.exe are all in the current
directory.

Can you test this?

I typed cmd.exe and got into Windows command shell but when I wrote winboard.exe it writes: "winboard.exe is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file".

[F.Huber]

There must be something trivially wrong. Normally the following
should work from a windows command shell (cmd.exe)

winboard.exe -fcp robbolito.exe -fUCI

Yes, there is indeed something wrong either with the last Polyglot or Winboard version!
This command defintely doesn't work anymore, but it did work a few versions before ...