3-move ballots programs

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Krzysztof Grzelak
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3-move ballots programs

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I have a question. Can the following programs below play 3-move ballot openings?

Cerberus - own GUI
Damage - own GUI
Dragon - own GUI
Kingsrow - own GUI
Tornado - own GUI
Horizon - own GUI
Flits - own GUI
GWD - GUI Turbodambase
Dream Gaïa - own GUI
Truus voor Windows 1.0 - own GUI
Sjende Blyn - own GUI
Scan - own GUI
Maximus - own GUI
Moby Dam - GUI Dam 2.2

Thank you in advance for the information.
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Re: 3-move ballots programs

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The current Damage GUI (Damage2026) supports this option.
But Im still in the update mode (together with Codex).

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Re: 3-move ballots programs

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And in addition, as the Damage2026 GUI support HUB, several other engines can use this as the host GUI.
So far I tested (and it worked).
* Kingsrow (hub version)
* Tornado (special version from Frank)
* Horizon
* Scan
* Moby Dam

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Re: 3-move ballots programs

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Bert, thanks for your reply. These are the normal versions. There is no need to use dxp or hub. I'm more interested in playing between two computers in a tournament.
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And you want to operate the computers yourself, so no computer-computer communication?

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Re: 3-move ballots programs

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Bert, yes.
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Re: 3-move ballots programs

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Krzysztof Grzelak wrote: Tue Aug 04, 2026 14:17 I have a question. Can the following programs below play 3-move ballot openings?

Tornado - own GUI

Thank you in advance for the information.
In Tornado with Bordstand / Bewerken... you can setup the initial position, and with Bordstand / Wissel zetkleur you can set the color to move first.
After this you can start the game as usual.
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FrankMesander wrote: Tue Aug 04, 2026 16:17 In Tornado with Bordstand / Bewerken... you can setup the initial position, and with Bordstand / Wissel zetkleur you can set the color to move first.
After this you can start the game as usual.
Thank you, Frank.
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Post by MichelG »

Dragon can, but you need to put a pdn file with the positions in the dxp directory. I forgot to add that to the installer.

I will fix in the next update, working on that.

You will also be able to run damexchange directly from the engine, for any list of pdn files. No GUI overhead. Just start the dragon64r, or dragon64rSSE2.exe:

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dragon> dxp
in: dxp
Native DamExchange console. Type help for commands.
damexchange> cores 8
Dragon will use 8 search threads
damexchange> fisher 1 0.1
Fischer time set to 1 + 0.1 seconds
damexchange> connect
damexchange> Connecting to 127.0.0.1:27531
DamExchange connected
damexchange> match "Q:\prog\dragon4\gui\dxp\2 ply balanced.pdn"
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