Winboard Plus -- just great!

[Djordje Vidanovic]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Djordje Vidanovic at 08 July 2000 21:46:35:
To all Winboarders,
Winboard Plus, the recompiled and modified version of Winboard 4.0.7, by Marc S. Williams is great! I have just downloaded and tried it and it runs smoothly doing some of the things I've always wished for: black borders for white pieces and clipboard support (both for single positions and games). So now you needn't have a costly commercial to analyse your games on the fly: just invoke Crafty or any other WB engine that can analyse a game while you go through it! Winboard Plus offers also lots of improvement regarding ICS services. Thanks!
*** Djordje

[Frank Quisinsky]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Frank Quisinsky at 09 July 2000 08:29:21:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Winboard Plus -- just great! geschrieben von: / posted by: Djordje Vidanovic at 08 July 2000 21:46:35:

To all Winboarders,
Winboard Plus, the recompiled and modified version of Winboard 4.0.7, by Marc S. Williams is great! I have just downloaded and tried it and it runs smoothly doing some of the things I've always wished for: black borders for white pieces and clipboard support (both for single positions and games). So now you needn't have a costly commercial to analyse your games on the fly: just invoke Crafty or any other WB engine that can analyse a game while you go through it! Winboard Plus offers also lots of improvement regarding ICS services. Thanks!
*** Djordje

Hi Djordje,
I have big problems with WinBoard Plus.
I can not see the complete Menue !
Friendly
Frank

[Frank Quisinsky]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Frank Quisinsky at 09 July 2000 08:45:11:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: I have problems with WB-Plus, picture -- 84.300 bytes ! geschrieben von: / posted by: Frank Quisinsky at 09 July 2000 08:29:21:
Hi,
I have forgotten (for the programmer) !
I have installed:
Windows NT4 SP6
NTFS
Dual Pentium III 733EB MHz, 384/133 MB Ram
Guillemot 3d Prophet (grafic) !
I think the reason is not the NT or the Hardware
but it is curious
Regards
Frank

[pete]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: pete at 09 July 2000 09:33:04:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: I have problems with WB-Plus, picture -- 84.300 bytes ! geschrieben von: / posted by: Frank Quisinsky at 09 July 2000 08:29:21:

To all Winboarders,
Winboard Plus, the recompiled and modified version of Winboard 4.0.7, by Marc S. Williams is great! I have just downloaded and tried it and it runs smoothly doing some of the things I've always wished for: black borders for white pieces and clipboard support (both for single positions and games). So now you needn't have a costly commercial to analyse your games on the fly: just invoke Crafty or any other WB engine that can analyse a game while you go through it! Winboard Plus offers also lots of improvement regarding ICS services. Thanks!
*** Djordje

Hi Djordje,
I have big problems with WinBoard Plus.
I can not see the complete Menue !
Friendly
Frank

Same here running NT 4 SP 3 .
The pieceset really looks like an improvement , hope someone can fix it .
pete

[Frank Quisinsky]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Frank Quisinsky at 09 July 2000 09:50:30:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: I have problems with WB-Plus, same here geschrieben von: / posted by: pete at 09 July 2000 09:33:04:

To all Winboarders,
Winboard Plus, the recompiled and modified version of Winboard 4.0.7, by Marc S. Williams is great! I have just downloaded and tried it and it runs smoothly doing some of the things I've always wished for: black borders for white pieces and clipboard support (both for single positions and games). So now you needn't have a costly commercial to analyse your games on the fly: just invoke Crafty or any other WB engine that can analyse a game while you go through it! Winboard Plus offers also lots of improvement regarding ICS services. Thanks!
*** Djordje

Hi Djordje,
I have big problems with WinBoard Plus.
I can not see the complete Menue !
Friendly
Frank

Same here running NT 4 SP 3 .
The pieceset really looks like an improvement , hope someone can fix it .
pete

Good, it is not my hardware or configuration !
NT ?
Regards
Frank

[M.Scheidl]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: M.Scheidl at 09 July 2000 16:37:13:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: I have problems with WB-Plus, same here geschrieben von: / posted by: Frank Quisinsky at 09 July 2000 09:50:30:
I've played a few moves and looked in all the menus... no problem so far with Winboard Plus and Windows 98, except one: The Gnu book doesn't work because the file gnuchess.dat is missing. I took it from another WB release and it works now.
Regards,
M.Scheidl

[Dave]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Dave at 09 July 2000 18:20:22:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: I have problems with WB-Plus - none with W98 geschrieben von: / posted by: M.Scheidl at 09 July 2000 16:37:13:

I've played a few moves and looked in all the menus... no problem so far with Winboard Plus and Windows 98, except one: The Gnu book doesn't work because the file gnuchess.dat is missing. I took it from another WB release and it works now.
Regards,
M.Scheidl

I've also checked it out quite a bit on W95 and it works great for me. I simply copied the Winboard.ini file from my old winboard directory to the new Winboard Plus directory and therefore all my old settings work with the new features.
Dave

[Jim Monaghan]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Jim Monaghan at 09 July 2000 18:33:37:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: I have problems with WB-Plus - none with W98 geschrieben von: / posted by: Dave at 09 July 2000 18:20:22:

I've played a few moves and looked in all the menus... no problem so far with Winboard Plus and Windows 98, except one: The Gnu book doesn't work because the file gnuchess.dat is missing. I took it from another WB release and it works now.
Regards,
M.Scheidl

I've also checked it out quite a bit on W95 and it works great for me. I simply copied the Winboard.ini file from my old winboard directory to the new Winboard Plus directory and therefore all my old settings work with the new features.
Dave

Winboard Plus works great on my machine running Win98. I went to run GNUchess 5.0 and the message came up that CYGWIN1.dll file was missing. I just copied it from my Phalanx folder and it now works great.
Thanks for the GNU opening tip. I thought it was rather slow in the opening.
Jim

[Djordje Vidanovic]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Djordje Vidanovic at 09 July 2000 19:02:14:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: I have problems with WB-Plus, same here geschrieben von: / posted by: pete at 09 July 2000 09:33:04:

To all Winboarders,
Winboard Plus, the recompiled and modified version of Winboard 4.0.7, by Marc S. Williams is great! I have just downloaded and tried it and it runs smoothly doing some of the things I've always wished for: black borders for white pieces and clipboard support (both for single positions and games). So now you needn't have a costly commercial to analyse your games on the fly: just invoke Crafty or any other WB engine that can analyse a game while you go through it! Winboard Plus offers also lots of improvement regarding ICS services. Thanks!
*** Djordje

Hi Djordje,
I have big problems with WinBoard Plus.
I can not see the complete Menue !
Friendly
Frank

Same here running NT 4 SP 3 .
The pieceset really looks like an improvement , hope someone can fix it .
pete

Hi, both to Pete and Frank
It seems to be NT that's a little quirky... I am running Win 2000 here, no problems. Are you sure sure that the menues are not there? I mean the menue system's been changed so that you need to actually click on the item in order to get second level options.
It is not only the pieceset, it is the whole clipboard thing: you can actually simply copy and paste from all over (your ascii files with games, real PGN, Internet games etc) + the enhanced ICS functions.
*** Djordje
BTW, The Crazy Bishop 0045 has just thrashed the new Yace (v. 21): 40-20 + 20 draws (game in five)...

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Gian-Carlo Pascutto at 09 July 2000 19:44:50:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Winboard Plus -- just great! geschrieben von: / posted by: Djordje Vidanovic at 08 July 2000 21:46:35:

To all Winboarders,
Winboard Plus, the recompiled and modified version of Winboard 4.0.7, by Marc >S. Williams is great! I have just downloaded and tried it and it runs >smoothly doing some of the things I've always wished for: black borders for >white pieces and clipboard support (both for single positions and games). So >now you needn't have a costly commercial to analyse your games on the fly: >just invoke Crafty or any other WB engine that can analyse a game while you go >through it! Winboard Plus offers also lots of improvement regarding ICS >services. Thanks!

*** Djordje

Aside from the NT trouble mentioned in the other thread, I'm having
trouble using it on a chess server with Win98. More specifically it
seems to 'blank out' the line where you type your commands, so you
have to type everything blindly.
--
GCP

[Djordje Vidanovic]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Djordje Vidanovic at 09 July 2000 22:00:05:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: Winboard Plus -- just great! geschrieben von: / posted by: Gian-Carlo Pascutto at 09 July 2000 19:44:50:

Aside from the NT trouble mentioned in the other thread, I'm having
trouble using it on a chess server with Win98. More specifically it
seems to 'blank out' the line where you type your commands, so you
have to type everything blindly.
--
GCP

Gian-Carlo,
No problems whatsoever on ICC over here. I have tried WB Plus this afternoon, played two games using my computer account with a WB engine, everything was fine. It appears (??) that WB Plus runs fine only under Win 2000...
*** Djordje

[Andreas Herrmann]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Andreas Herrmann at 09 July 2000 22:51:03:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: I have problems with WB-Plus, same here geschrieben von: / posted by: Frank Quisinsky at 09 July 2000 09:50:30:

To all Winboarders,
Winboard Plus, the recompiled and modified version of Winboard 4.0.7, by Marc S. Williams is great! I have just downloaded and tried it and it runs smoothly doing some of the things I've always wished for: black borders for white pieces and clipboard support (both for single positions and games). So now you needn't have a costly commercial to analyse your games on the fly: just invoke Crafty or any other WB engine that can analyse a game while you go through it! Winboard Plus offers also lots of improvement regarding ICS services. Thanks!
*** Djordje

Hi Djordje,
I have big problems with WinBoard Plus.
I can not see the complete Menue !
Friendly
Frank

Same here running NT 4 SP 3 .
The pieceset really looks like an improvement , hope someone can fix it .
pete

Good, it is not my hardware or configuration !
NT ?
Regards
Frank

On my system with NT4 SP5 i misses the menue too.
Andreas H.

[Mark S. Williams]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Mark S. Williams at 10 July 2000 02:04:26:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: I have problems with WB-Plus, picture -- 84.300 bytes ! geschrieben von: / posted by: Frank Quisinsky at 09 July 2000 08:29:21:
Hello all WinBoarders--
I'm very sorry to hear about the problems everyone is having with WinBoard Plus and Win NT. I compiled it using MSVC++6.0 under Win 98, and I did not have access to an NT system. I don't know what is wrong. Until I figure it out, the only thing I can suggest is recompiling the source on NT. Thank you everyone for your comments.
Mark

[Frank Quisinsky]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Frank Quisinsky at 10 July 2000 22:16:26:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Winboard Plus and Win NT geschrieben von: / posted by: Mark S. Williams at 10 July 2000 02:04:26:

Hello all WinBoarders--
I'm very sorry to hear about the problems everyone is having with WinBoard Plus and Win NT. I compiled it using MSVC++6.0 under Win 98, and I did not have access to an NT system. I don't know what is wrong. Until I figure it out, the only thing I can suggest is recompiling the source on NT. Thank you everyone for your comments.
Mark

Hi Mark,
I hope you find the error. The new options are very interesting and I think that a lot of WinBoarders use now WB Plus.
Thanks
Frank