While using Pro Deo as a UCI engine the user has the ability to set the options for playing style and playing strength. Is there a way to set those options while using Pro Deo as a Winboard engine in the the Winboard GUI?
Below is what I now have for Pro Deo as a Winboard engine in the Winboard ini file.
I've tried entering just about every parameter I can think of to get the playing style and strength settings to work, including /settingsFile prodeo.cpeini, but no luck.
I'm coming to the conclusion that the playing style and playing strength parameters for Pro Deo as a Winboard engine can only be set in the ChessPartner GUI since ChessPartner uses some type of Winboard adapter. Is this correct?
I don't have a long history of using Winboard. There are probably better, more convenient ways, to input the data into the ini file than the way I have it, but when I was learning how to get things to work, what I posted is the template I got to work. I don't know that the way I have it is plain wrong or not, but things, as far as I can tell, work.
The way I have it I find that the "Pro Deo 1.2" part just serves the purpose of letting me pick the engine I wish to use when Winboard first opens, there may be more important reasons maybe for it being there but for me it just lets me see the engine name I am picking. I know I don't need the .exe part in there but it lets me visually see that it is an exe file entry, and the /firstProtocolVersion 1 entry for Pro Deo is not really needed and I can do away with that /firstProtocolVersion 1 entry, but for now I have it in there.
The real kick for me was getting Polyglot to work in Winboard.
As far the Playing Style and Playing Strength go, if some humanitarian wants to step up and say it can't be done in Winboard that is welcome.