How do we change the engine that Winboard uses?

[kwkingdom123]

How do we change engines and is it possible for Winboard to use the engine on fritz 12 (if yes, how)?

[H.G.Muller]

When you start WinBoard from the command line (e.g. in a shortcut) you would need to use the extra options:

winboard /cp /fcp="ENGINE.exe" /fd="ENGINE_FOLDER"

(and similar options /scp and /sd for the second engine, if you want to use two). When you start WinBoard through the startup dialog, you can type whatever was after the /fcp= in the input fields of this dialog, like

"ENGINE.exe" /fd="ENGINE_FOLDER"

Finally, when you want these names to appear automatically in the startup dialog's combo boxes, so you can select them without typing, you would have to add that line to the /firstChessProgramNames section of the winboard.ini file, using a text editor like NotePad.

Oh, and when it is a UCI engine, rather than a WinBoard engine, you will need the extra option /fUCI (or /sUCI) on th eline in all the cases. You can also give other options that you want WinBoard to use only with that engine, on the remainder of the line. Examples:

"Crafty.exe" /fd="C:\Program Files\Crafty232\"
"glaurung.exe" /fd="C:\MyEngines\Glaurung22\" /fUCI
"glaurung.exe" /fd="C:\MyEngines\Glaurung22\" /fUCI /variant=fischerandom
"umax48.exe" /fd="C:\MyEngines\microMax\" /firstXBook
"pulsar.exe" /fd="..\Pulsar\" /variant=losers

This tells WinBoard that glaurung is a UCI engine, makes a separate entry for starting Glaurung in Chess960 mode, enables the use of the GUI book for micro-Max and starts up Pulsar (whose folder is specified relative ti the WinBoard folder) for playing Loser's Chess.

[Olivier Deville]

Let's answer the other question : there is no way of running native ChessBase engines on other GUIs.

Olivier

[mocha1961]

what is the difference between s and f in the engine section

[Roger Brown]

what is the difference between s and f in the engine section

Hello mocha1961,

F: first engine
S: second engine

Later.

[mocha1961]

thx for the info