Stockfish Crazyhouse Engine

[styx]

is your UCI2WB.exe located in "C:\Program Files (x86)\WinBoard-4.8.0\stockfish8zh_x64_modern" ?

if not, copy it to this folder and try again

[Carlos777]

is your UCI2WB.exe located in "C:\Program Files (x86)\WinBoard-4.8.0\stockfish8zh_x64_modern" ?

if not, copy it to this folder and try again

In my case, UCI2WB.exe is in the same folder than Winboard.exe

[JManion]

is your UCI2WB.exe located in "C:\Program Files (x86)\WinBoard-4.8.0\stockfish8zh_x64_modern" ?

if not, copy it to this folder and try again

In my case, UCI2WB.exe is in the same folder than Winboard.exe

Miner was in the winboard folder. I tried to copy it to the stockfish folder and tried to run the engine. had the same error.

[Carlos777]

is your UCI2WB.exe located in "C:\Program Files (x86)\WinBoard-4.8.0\stockfish8zh_x64_modern" ?

if not, copy it to this folder and try again

In my case, UCI2WB.exe is in the same folder than Winboard.exe

Miner was in the winboard folder. I tried to copy it to the stockfish folder and tried to run the engine. had the same error.

Actually the path is for the engine. Is your stockfish_8zh.exe in C:\Program Files (x86)\WinBoard-4.8.0\stockfish8zh_x64_modern?

[JManion]

yes it is

[Carlos777]

yes it is

Problem could be there are spaces in the path. You may try moving the winboard folder to C:\

[JManion]

I have a dozen other engines in separate folders and they all work in winboard

[Guenther]

I have a dozen other engines in separate folders and they all work in winboard

Do you have the real crazyhouse SF program from here?
https://github.com/niklasf/Stockfish/releases

BTW with the new UCI2WB file from HGM and following his steps
the entry would look much simpler now, sth like this:
(replace your path)

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"StockfishZH_8-64" -fcp "stockfishZH_8-64.exe" -fd "C:\Engines\Crazyhouse\StockfishZH_8-64" -fUCCI -variant crazyhouse

[styx]

You don't even need to add "-variant crazyhouse" at the end

[hgm]

Indeed, that is only for the convenience of having WinBoard switch to Crazyhouse whenever you load the engine. But because this Stockfish is a multi-variant engine that also supports regular Chess, perhaps this is not what you want anyway.

Note that this Stockfish also defines some (CECP) non-standard variants, such as kingofthehill and racingkings. These will not work yet uder the latest UCI2WB, as the GUI expects selection of this variant to be responded to with a 'setup' command to define the game. (E.g. for initial position.) This Stockfish already provides this info as an "info string", but UCI2WB does not relay that yet.