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[Filipov2007]

Hi there. This is my first post in this forum, I have read some of your threads, http://forums.ubi.com/eve/foru...0105752/m/2241096085. I am not even sure if this is the correct place to send this post.

I have already read in one the threads of the CMX discussions about how to Import a UCI engine into CMX. I just can't get it to work there. It gives the Imported engine a Personality with the rating of zero. As a result the engine does not make a move. I then changed that rating to a bigger number, the personality played the most ridiculous chess I have ever seen What am I doing wrong because I have followed what ebutaljib wrote there? Did somebody ever got such a problem. Thanks in advance.

[Filipov2007]

Hi there. This is my first post in this forum, I have read some of your threads, http://forums.ubi.com/eve/foru...0105752/m/2241096085. I am not even sure if this is the correct place to send this post.

I have already read in one the threads of the CMX discussions about how to Import a UCI engine into CMX. I just can't get it to work there. It gives the Imported engine a Personality with the rating of zero. As a result the engine does not make a move. I then changed that rating to a bigger number, the personality played the most ridiculous chess I have ever seen What am I doing wrong because I have followed what ebutaljib wrote there? Did somebody ever got such a problem. Thanks in advance.

[Filipov2007]

Just came to think of it, I don't remember putting a slash at the end where you specify the path of the Directory, as a result, it doesn't see the directory.

Example EngineDir = C:\Rybka\
I think I might have written something like EngineDir = C:\Rybka

I will try this later when I get home.

Thanks for your help TedSummers

[diskamyl]

finally, after two years of trying again and giving up (again) from time to time, I managed to make it work! I'm so excited.

there are two possibilities about how it didn't work before and did today:

1)I had done everything exactly the same as suggested, except that I hadn't put the slash at the end of the full path in the ini file. (I had "c:\poly" instead of "c:\poly\"

2)I set the rating of Rybka something other than 0.

thanks a lot, TedSummers!

[Tribbes]

Hi guys, in my experience, as soon as you edit the personality, to change the 0 rating higher, the personality (Rybka) reverts back to theking350. Check your task mananger and see if the rybka engine is actually running. I could not get the rybka engine running in CMXI. I think the reason has something to do with the path of the ini file (I am running Vista).

[diskamyl]

Tribbes, you are certainly right!

I played some games with rybka against some CM personalities and I got weird results, the problem is exactly as you have mentioned, as soon as you edit the Rybka personality, it becomes TheKing engine.

That's why people are surprised to have a lot of draws or won games by chessmaster against rybka. a normal Rybka should win 70% against CM.

now, the biggest problem is, if you do not edit the Rybka (and make it a duplicate of the king), it won't play any moves!

god damn, I was so excited. so what now, how do I run Rybka on CM again?

[Tribbes]

I think the problem is the ini file location. The polyglot.exe which is renamed is launched from out Chessmaster GUI for this reason it does not find the ini which is in the same folder as the renamed polyglot.exe file. If we can figure out which is the current folder is when the engine is launced our problem will be solved. The you just place the ini file (renamed back to original polyglot.ini) in that folder and do not specify it when importing the engine in Chessmaster (engine parameter)

[Tribbes]

Hi TedSummers, are your running Vista or XP?

[Tribbes]

I think Vista is causing the Polyglot problems. I cannot make it work for CMX in Vista either, and have done it on Windows XP before.

[Tribbes]

I don't think so. I think it has something to do with the current working directory. I tested with command prompt - if you are not in the folder that the polyglot.exe is then the ini file is not found and the program exits. I think the same thing happens when running from Chessmaster in Vista.