1Description
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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).
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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.
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12This new version of Polyglot is fully backward compatible and will in
13fact under normal circumstances autodetect the protocol.
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15The following is a minimal polyglot.ini file to make an engine use
16Polyglot books.
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18[Polyglot]
19EngineCommand = <path to engine>
20[Engine]
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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".
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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".
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29If you want to override the protocol autodetection (which should
30normally not be necessary) you can put
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32UCI = true
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34in the [Polyglot] section.
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36Just like 1.4w10, this version of Polyglot compiles both under Linux
37and Windows.
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39Some notes on Arena
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42Up to version 1.99b5 Arena contained a bug with drive letters in UCI
43options. This bug has been fixed in 2.00.
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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.
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