1Description 2=========== 3 4This is an enhanced version of Polyglot 1.4w10 which can be used as a book 5engine for Polyglot books on UCI GUIs. It also has some additional features 6(see below). 7 8Some GUIs like ChessBase do not support Winboard engines at all. Other 9GUIs do support the Winboard protocol (like Arena) but you still lose 10the convenience of setting UCI options through the GUI. 11 12This new version of Polyglot is fully backward compatible and will in 13fact under normal circumstances autodetect the protocol. 14 15The following is a minimal polyglot.ini file to make an engine use 16Polyglot books. 17 18[Polyglot] 19EngineCommand = <path to engine> 20[Engine] 21 22By default this does not use any book but you can set the Polyglot book 23in the GUI through the exported UCI option "Polyglot BookFile". 24 25Any normal polyglot.ini file can be used with this version. The UCI 26options you set in the [Engine] section will be honored and the 27results will be shown in the GUI as "defaults". 28 29If you want to override the protocol autodetection (which should 30normally not be necessary) you can put 31 32UCI = true 33 34in the [Polyglot] section. 35 36Just like 1.4w10, this version of Polyglot compiles both under Linux 37and Windows. 38 39Some notes on Arena 40=================== 41 42Up to version 1.99b5 Arena contained a bug with drive letters in UCI 43options. This bug has been fixed in 2.00. 44 45If you let Arena autodetect the engine type then it will use Polyglot 46in Winboard mode. So either configure the Polyglot adapter explicitly 47as a UCI engine in the Arena GUI, or else put UCI = true in the 48[Polyglot] section of polyglot.ini. 49 50 51