Configuring an Engine

You reach this dialog by 'Engines arrow Engine 1(or 2...) arrow Configure' or by clicking the right mouse button on the analysis lines and selecting 'Configure engine' Keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+1 or Ctrl+2.

UCI engines:

You can set parameters for the UCI engine with the dialog here.

Example for the Rebel-Engine:

[engine-config.bmp]

Which parameters you can set here depends only on the programmer of the engine.

Arena only displays the dialog box on the screen and sends the commands to the engine.

In case you want to define default values for some parameters, these parameters are not displayed here, but under Engines arrow Manage...arrow UCI

WinBoard engines:

For a WinBoard engine, the configuration file will be opened with notepad, if you selected one in the Engines/ Install and Select/ Details tab.

For most WinBoard engines, you have to restart the engine to get the settings in effect. This is done easily by clicking the right mouse button on the analysis lines and selecting '(Re)start engine'.