Engine: Butcher (also Rzeznik)

Author: Marek Kolacz, Poland.

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Edit Mode

Analyze Mode

Opening Book

Create book

Ponder On/Off

Hash Tables

Table Bases

v1.60n1

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Nalimov

Draw claim

Resign

Force and go

Program language

Source available

Learn

XBoard

UCI

First release

Yes

No

Yes

C

No

No

Yes

No

25-09-2001

WinBoard.ini lines:
"Butcher -ht 32 -egtb 8" /fd=d:\Winboard\Butcher
"Butcher -ht 32 -egtb 8" /sd=d:\Winboard\Butcher
Configuration: ---- !!! ----
Since 1.42a version, Butcher is able to use Nalimov EGTBs.
The only way to make Butcher use EGTBs is to define environment variable EGTB4BUTCHER
which contains path to EGTB files (may be defined as a system variable under Windows).
<example>
EGTB4BUTCHER=d:\Nalimov

Homepage: Butcher
Download: Yes
Info: Older versions (until 1.35) will not play without the opening book installed!!