I am somewhat puzzled by the command line parameters. Suppose I have a game
named game.pgn, and I played White, and I want to annotate it. Could you
give me a sample command line to give crafty to make this work?
Thanks
Patrick/konchog
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glad that you made it!
As a side note, you may want to check the crafty documentation, a pdf inside
the crafty folder, specially the command called annotate. You can run
crafty in command line mode and ask it to annotate a game of yours, so that
it will put scores for your moves and suggest better alternatives. Very good
when analyzing your own games. It generates a .pgn.can file, which you can
open with notepad and check the output. Side lines are annotated with
comments inside the pgn.
One of the most accessible ways that I have found to analyze my games.
On 08/07/2016 15:47, Karma Könchog Jungné wrote:
After a little more tinkering, I eliminated the need to state the file name
explicity. Put the executable for the chess engine in the same directory as
winboard. You still need to add winboard as a parameter to be passed to
crafty for it to work properly.
Thanks for all the help. This is meant in gratitude, not sarcasm.
konchog
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Patrick,
You need to add the path to crafty into a configuration file in winboard,
the process is explained here:
http://hgm.nubati.net/xboard/winboard/help/html/20.htm
On 07/07/2016 09:32, Karma Könchog Jungné wrote:
WinBoard was not the problem. I wanted to install tsome new chess engines,
including crafty and a weaker program like golem to practice with and none
of the links in the web page provided seem to work, and I did find crafty
20.0 last night, and I am able to run it from a command window, but I
cant seem to plug it into WinBoard.
Also, You might want to turn off the screen echo in your JAWS WinBoard
configuration file in order to shut up the clock.
Patrick
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Hello Patrick,
I got WinBoard to work perfectly. I used this 3 step process.
1. Activate this program (WinBoard Startup Dialog).
2. Press down arrow until (Play against a chess engine or match two engines)
then press the tab key.
A few other choices exist.
Just view or edit game files
Use an Internet Chess Server
3. Press down arrow to pick this chess engine in the list (fruit_21
/fd="Fruit" -fUCI) then press the enter key.
Edward
In a message dated 7/6/2016 5:42:25 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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I tried some of the links in the chess engine introduction, and none of them
seem to work. Krafty and golen in particular.
I did find a list of chess engines, and downloaded one, and all I got was a
".wri" fuke, which does not seem to be recognized by winboard.
Thanks
Patrick
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Subject: [usbca_chess] Re: Fritz and Chessbase
a site with 10000 tactical positions in fen format:
http://www.wtharvey.com/
take your time to read through it, it is splited in many, many categories,
but it is useful.
Setting up winboard with a chess engine:
http://horizonchess.com/FAQ/Winboard/Winboard1.html
and this link is also useful:
http://hgm.nubati.net/xboard/winboard/help/html/20.htm
In case you fall into any problems, just shout :)
On 06/07/2016 13:27, Karma Könchog Jungné wrote:
You can use WinBoard with different chess engines? Where can I see somedocumentation for this? Playing the computer was an easy problem to solve
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[mailto:usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lucas Radaellicomputer and it is fully accessible.
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Subject: [usbca_chess] Re: Fritz and Chessbase
Well, if you are trying to play against the computer, my suggestions are:
1. Shredder for i Phone lets you select the playing strength of the
engines and play against it. You can tweak the configurations to configure
2. For windows, you can use winboard and set it up with several chess
accessible. Hope to have news soon.
3. Lechess, the website, is also somewhat accessible.
For tactics:
- I am helping a developer to make a website that contains tactics
accessible to the blind. All you have to do is to stick to the Microsoft
On 06/07/2016 12:20, Karma Könchog Jungné wrote:
That really is a shame. It is so easy nowadays to make applications
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free version of chessbase with NVDA, and some items on the screen were[mailto:usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lucas Radaelli
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Well, I ran into the same problems that you are having. I tried to use a
trying at home), but I don't expect it to be accessible.
Maybe it depends on the version (I need to double check which one I was
far as I could tell, it is completely useless to the blind. JAWS cursor
On 05/07/2016 18:11, Karma Könchog Jungné wrote:
Hello,
I downloaded the demo version of Fritz 12, and found that, at least as
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many thankks
patrick
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Subject: [usbca_chess] Re: reading cbv files?
All,
A lot of traffic on this list and the sister-ones.
Can I suggest that folk write to individuals instead of the lists with
or whatever you are using, save the book/cbv file into a PGN file, which is
Lucas, save the CBV into a different format. In your chess-base or Fritz
word-process it.
So, save it in a PGN format, as that is easy and allows you to
it in a Word-Processing method and edit/format at will. Learn how theThen, open up the PGN file in WordPad or Notepad, and you can go through
reading these books, reading such things, is a useful, but not the absolute
Can I stress though, as I have done many a time on this list, that
in a productive, or, effective manner.
I gain the impression that your focus, objective approach is not centred
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Cheers,
Chris
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I can try to mail the blog author.... :) On 30/06/2016 15:17, Mark R
<mailto:lucasradaelli@xxxxxxxxx> >I don't suppose you could get a pgn version of the book?
Mark.
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I am a computer science graduate and still getting problems....
jokes aside, I tried openning the encoded cbv file by hand to see
if the format was parseable somehow, but it is not the case. Cbv
turns out to be a closed format of the chessbase program, so it is
not possible to write a script apparently to convert it.
Anyway, thanks for the comments, I will keep trying different
produced in the chessbase format.
On 30/06/2016 13:34, Mark R Hague wrote:
HI Lucas,
my experience is that it all depends on how the chesssbase code
has been compiled by the author. Unfortunately the more
complicated the code is the less likely it is to be accessible. I
get the impression that older and therefore simpler chessbase CDs
are more accessible as I believe so is the chessbase magazines
<mailto:lucasradaelli@xxxxxxxxx> >Try using different screen readers and if you can try it on a
different version of windows. that might give you better results.
One can also try and tweek the chessbase reader settings to make
it announce moves which can sometimes help. Also many chessbase
CDs contain individual vidio files which can be played separately
often located in a folder called html or pocket fritz. It is
regretable that you need to be a Computer Science graduate to
attempt to read chessbase files if you are visually impaired.
regards,
Mark.
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Subject: [usbca_chess] Re: reading cbv files?
did not have success using chessbase and nvda.
I can open the book, navigate in its contents, but opening any
item on the list brings me to a window that it is inaccessible,
where I suppose that the content of the book is.
Is anyone able to use chessbase with a screen reader?
On 29/06/2016 08:23, Jim wrote:
Hi,
It looks like Google was my friend. See this link.
http://download.chessbase.com/Download/ChessBaseReader/Setup.msi
Jim
On 6/29/16, Mark R Hague <Mark.hague.list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
try and use the free chessbase reader program as a first try.
Most chessbase cds include a free copy of this program.
Mark.
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Subject: [usbca_chess] reading cbv files?
Reading about the sicilian dragon on the Internet, I came
across this book, that is available for download for free.
It is in cbv format. Googling a little bit more it says that
this is the chessbase format.
I don't have chessbase yet, and I am not planning to buy it very
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So, was wondering what program you use to read cbv, and if it is
accessible or not.
Thanks.
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