📝Greg Strong wrote on Tue, Mar 21, 2017 11:55 AM EDT:
1. If you create a new text file with a .cvc (ChessV Code) extension and throw it in the "Include" sub-directory, the game will be available. There's no documentation in this but you can look at the samples, and the ChessV Source Code Documentation will be somewhat helpful as the interpreter is just a thin layer that dynamically finds c# members and functions in the underlying objects and routes calls to them. It probably won't do what you're looking for, though. You can make new games by deriving from an existing game that is close. You can then change game variables and add/remove piece types, but you cannot implement new rules. You can make new piece types, but only so long as the moves are supported by the internal move generator (so no Griffin.)
2. Not sure. You're not giving me much to go on. The installation program doesn't do anything except extract the files and create an icon on the start menu. Try this: first, delete the Fairy-Max subdirectory of Engines/XBoard and try to run it. If that doesn't work, delete the entire ChessV2 folder and re-run the installation. Let me know how that goes.
1. If you create a new text file with a .cvc (ChessV Code) extension and throw it in the "Include" sub-directory, the game will be available. There's no documentation in this but you can look at the samples, and the ChessV Source Code Documentation will be somewhat helpful as the interpreter is just a thin layer that dynamically finds c# members and functions in the underlying objects and routes calls to them. It probably won't do what you're looking for, though. You can make new games by deriving from an existing game that is close. You can then change game variables and add/remove piece types, but you cannot implement new rules. You can make new piece types, but only so long as the moves are supported by the internal move generator (so no Griffin.)
2. Not sure. You're not giving me much to go on. The installation program doesn't do anything except extract the files and create an icon on the start menu. Try this: first, delete the Fairy-Max subdirectory of Engines/XBoard and try to run it. If that doesn't work, delete the entire ChessV2 folder and re-run the installation. Let me know how that goes.
Thanks,
Greg