Geschrieben von: / Posted by: The desastrous Volker Pittlik at 27 July 2000 19:33:27:
Yet another Pittlik Error
As some have noticed Yace is playing without hash sometimes. This happend to me too and the result of the match I have posted here some days ago (http://f11.parsimony.net/forum16635/messages/6144.htm) can not be kept serious.
The reason for playing without hash is as simple as painful:
I have edited my winboard.ini improperly. It contained:
/firstChessProgramNames="GNUChess
...
\"Yace_021\" /fd=d:\\WinBoard\\yace
...
"
/secondChessProgramNames="GNUChess
...
\"Yace_021 xboard\" /sd=d:\\WinBoard\\yace
...
"
Do you see it? I haven't. Dieter told me. It's "xboard" in the second line.
If Yace was started as second chess program (as I have done in the match) it tried to read a file named xboard as initilization file. And because there wasn't a file like this Yace played without hash. Maybe some have something similar in their wb.ini. Yace doesn't need "xboard".
I will run the match again with the new version.
Volker