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</head><body><p>Hello support-team,</p><p>it is a computerchess-related topic e.g. running Python 0.99.3 <a href="https://github.com/pychess/pychess/releases/download/0.99.3/pychess-engine-20180928.pyz">https://github.com/pychess/pychess/releases/download/0.99.3/pychess-engine-20180928.pyz</a> outsite its own graphical user interface <a href="https://github.com/pychess/pychess/releases/download/0.99.3/pychess-0.99.3-win32.msi">https://github.com/pychess/pychess/releases/download/0.99.3/pychess-0.99.3-win32.msi</a> on an external front-end like WinBoard Interface <a href="http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=51528">http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=51528</a> with protocol CECP <a href="http://hgm.nubati.net/CECP.html">http://hgm.nubati.net/CECP.html</a> </p><p>A detailed description (with all necessary configurations) how to accomplish this problem is hosted on my Google Drive chess collection <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5Ao6h_yMCl6ay04RjVtUDVTUG8">https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5Ao6h_yMCl6ay04RjVtUDVTUG8</a> > folder Pychess_20180928</p><p>Günther Simon from Germany<a href="http://www.rwbc-chess.de/"> http://www.rwbc-chess.de/</a> reported that PyPy for Windows caused problems to run PyChess engine in contrast to WinPython or Python for Windows 3.</p><p>Best wishes,</p><p>Norbert</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span color="#000000" style="color: #000000;"><span face="Arial Black" style="font-family: 'Arial Black';"><span size="6" style="font-size: xx-large;"><u>PyChess 0.99.3 - WinBoard GUI</u></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br></p><ul><li><p style="text-align: left;"><span color="#000000" style="color: #000000;"><span face="Arial Black" style="font-family: 'Arial Black';"><span size="4" style="font-size: large;">Download WinPython 3.6.30Qt5 x64 (390 MB) </span></span></span><a href="https://github.com/winpython/winpython/releases/download/1.9.20171031/WinPython-64bit-3.6.3.0Qt5.exe"><span color="#0000ff" style="color: #0000ff;"><span face="Arial Black" style="font-family: 'Arial Black';"><span size="4" style="font-size: large;"><u>https://github.com/winpython/winpython/releases/download/1.9.20171031/WinPython-64bit-3.6.3.0Qt5.exe</u></span></span></span></a><span color="#000000" style="color: #000000;"><span face="Arial Black" style="font-family: 'Arial Black';"><span size="4" style="font-size: large;"> and install it on a drive e.g. C:\</span></span></span></p></li></ul><p style="text-align: left;"><span color="#000000" style="color: #000000;"><span face="Arial Black" style="font-family: 'Arial Black';"><span size="4" style="font-size: large;">This procedure can take more than 30 minutes.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br></p><ul><li><p style="text-align: left;"><span color="#000000" style="color: #000000;"><span face="Arial Black" style="font-family: 'Arial Black';"><span size="4" style="font-size: large;">Create a directory on C:\Engines\WB\PyChess_20180928 with the following working components: </span></span></span></p></li></ul><p style="text-align: left;"><span color="#000000" style="color: #000000;"><span face="Arial Black" style="font-family: 'Arial Black';"><span size="4" style="font-size: large;">> InBetween (configuration settings)</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span color="#000000" style="color: #000000;"><span face="Arial Black" style="font-family: 'Arial Black';"><span size="4" style="font-size: large;">> PyChess_20180928 Editor (text document)</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span color="#000000" style="color: #000000;"><span face="Arial Black" style="font-family: 'Arial Black';"><span size="4" style="font-size: large;">> PyChess_20180928 = renamed InBetween </span></span></span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100922051419/http://home.online.no/~malin/sjakk/download/InBetween.zip"><span color="#0000ff" style="color: #0000ff;"><span face="Arial Black" style="font-family: 'Arial Black';"><span size="4" style="font-size: large;"><u>http://web.archive.org/web/20100922051419/http://home.online.no/~malin/sjakk/download/InBetween.zip</u></span></span></span></a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span color="#000000" style="color: #000000;"><span face="Arial Black" style="font-family: 'Arial Black';"><span size="4" style="font-size: large;">> PyChess Zip application</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br></p><ul><li><p style="text-align: left;"><span color="#000000" style="color: #000000;"><span face="Arial Black" style="font-family: 'Arial Black';"><span size="4" style="font-size: large;">Run WinBoard GUI > Load first engine > PyChess_20180928.exe (without any commandline-parameters) under protocol WB-2</span></span></span></p></li></ul><p style="text-align: left;"><br></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span color="#000000" style="color: #000000;"><span face="Arial Black" style="font-family: 'Arial Black';"><span size="4" style="font-size: large;"><strong>It will not run with PyPy </strong></span></span></span><a href="https://pypy.org/download.html"><span color="#0000ff" style="color: #0000ff;"><span face="Arial Black" style="font-family: 'Arial Black';"><span size="4" style="font-size: large;"><u><strong>https://pypy.org/download.html</strong></u></span></span></span></a><span color="#000000" style="color: #000000;"><span face="Arial Black" style="font-family: 'Arial Black';"><span size="4" style="font-size: large;"><strong> on Windows, because there are only 32-bit PyPy installs for Windows available, while at least latest pychess.pyz seems to rely on some 64-bit Python stuff, which throws some known exceptions (according to Günther´s Google research) in this case.</strong></span></span></span></p></body></html>