Installation notes
The program is packaged as a set of diskettes, or as a CD-ROM, or as a downloadable CHESSVU.ZIP archive.
Run SETUP.EXE. You will be asked to enter a folder to install to (default is C:\Program Files\SmartSoftware\ChessVU).
It is possible to remove the program by means of Settings - Control Panel - Add/Remove programs.
If you want to use chess engines, you can download them from the Web (search for UCI engines, there are at least 20 available). You can put them where you like, and then load into ChessVU by the Menu etc. Please consider that the engines normally need a configuration file, whose name is not standardised (could be yace.ini for yace, but also config.dat, etc.). ChessVU does not handle these configuration files, you have to edit them and check that they are in the same directories where the engine executable are (a good choice is to create subdirectories under \uci_engines, one for each engine). Instead, ChessVU will look for an icon in the form of yace.jpg for yace etc. It sould be 80 x 40 pixels.
Normally the engine authors don't want the engines are distributed without permission, even though they are freeware. Therefore I have included only 2 engines (yace and pepito) to allow you to try (hope the authors will forgive me).
Thanks, anyway, to all the engine authors for their work.
Not 100% of engines work with ChessVU, you have to try (there are more problems under WindowsXP and 2000 than under Windows98 and Me, I don't know why).
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