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Subject: Re: Rebel 12 in Fritz 8

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 18:01:24 09/29/03

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On September 29, 2003 at 20:52:19, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote:

>On September 29, 2003 at 19:50:41, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>History -
>>
>>Lots of problems yesterday , ended up losing CT 15 etc , etc.
>>
>>Actions taken today -
>>
>>Removed Rebel 12 installation
>>Removed Chess Tiger 15 installations , curiously I had to that 3 times?
>>
>>Installed Chess Tiger 15
>>Installed Rebel 12
>>
>>Chess Tiger 15 now works, Rebel 12 works ..the only negative was that I lost
>>Chess Tiger 14 in this process:
>>
>>a) I'm not that worried about it
>>b) I believe there is a fix to get that going, but I will worry about it later/
>>
>>Rmoved Rebel12.uci and re-istalled Rebel 12 by pointing straight to the Rebel
>>engine folder :
>>
>>D:\Program Files\Lokasoft\ChessPartner5.2\engines\Rebel12
>>
>>- at the suggestion of someone, I point the wb2uci.eng straight to the folder
>>containing the rebeluci.exe.
>>
>>I changed the "TerminateHard = false" to "TerminateHard = true" although the
>>readme only says WINxp and the wb2uci.eng says " "In WIN XP or Win NT
>>TerminateHard = true" - somebody on CCC said "Win XP= WIN NT - WIN2K" which why
>>I asked the question in the first place - if I'm wrong, somebodyy please tell
>>me.
>
>This feature is to kill engines that stay in memory. If Rebel doesn't have this
>problem it doesn't matter what you set it to. The warning is because if you try
>to kill an engine in Win9x/Me you get a blue screen and isn't able to save other
>work on the PC.
>
>>
>>I changed the "Logfile = false" to "Logfile = true".
>>
>>here is the complete wb2uci.eng:
>>
>>============================================================================
>>[ENGINE]
>>Name = Rebel 12
>>Author = Ed Schroeder
>>Filename = RebelUci.exe
>>
>>[OPTIONS]
>>Program = D:\Program
>>Files\Lokasoft\ChessPartner5.2\engines\Rebel12\Rebel12_CB.exe w6 rebel.eng
>>LevelExtend = none
>>Analyze = false
>>UseUndo = false
>>Logfile = true
>>LevelType = 2
>>SimulateHint = true
>>TerminateHard = true
>>; In WIN XP or Win NT  TerminateHard = true
>>Protocol = 1
>>Visible = Ponder,Logfile,Extras
>>
>>[EXTRAS]
>>AntiGM=setvar antigm|spin|0|0|3
>>Playingstyle=setvar playstyle|spin|2|0|4
>>Strength=setvar playstrength|spin|2|0|2
>>Personality=setvar personality
>>personal\%s.eng|combo|Rebel|Rebel|Rebel1|Rebel2|Rebel3|Rebel4
>>
>>==============================================================================
>>
>>
>>ok ...
>>
>>I start the game and here is the log file:
>>
>>=============================================================================
>>
>>0.000: ** Adapter: Wb2Uci 1.3B10
>>0.031: C> uci
>>0.031: C< id name Rebel 12
>>0.031: C< id author Ed Schroeder
>>0.031: C< option name AntiGM type spin default 0 min 0 max 3
>>0.031: C< option name Playingstyle type spin default 2 min 0 max 4
>>0.031: C< option name Strength type spin default 2 min 0 max 2
>>0.031: C< option name Personality type combo default Rebel var Rebel var Rebel1
>>var Rebel2 var Rebel3 var Rebel4
>>0.031: C< option name Ponder type check default true
>>0.031: C< option name Logfile type check default true
>>0.031: C< uciok
>>0.078: C> setoption name Hash value 1
>>0.078: C> setoption name Ponder value false
>>0.078: C> isready
>
>Here the gui ask the engine to get ready. For protocol 1 engines there is a
>timer for how long the startup process take.
>As default this is set to 2 second.
>
>In the log it seems to be enough, but you could try to extend this time a bit.
>Ex. set
>InitTime=5
>under the option section in the eng file.
>
>>0.078: S- Starting server: D:\Program
>>Files\Lokasoft\ChessPartner5.2\engines\Rebel12\Rebel12_CB.exe w6 rebel.eng
>
>
>>0.109: S> License check okay.
>>0.109: S> info:misc:
>>0.109: S> info:misc:Rebel 12
>>0.109: S> info:misc:Version 12.00.00 (October 2003)
>>0.109: S> info:misc:Copyright ©2003, by Ed Schröder, The Netherlands
>>0.109: S> info:misc:http://members.home.nl/matador/index.htm
>>0.109: S> info:misc:matador@home.nl
>>0.109: S> info:misc:
>>0.109: S> W e l c o m e   t o   R E B E L  12.0
>>1.625: S> info:misc:CPU Speed  : 1721 Mhz
>>1.625: S> info:misc:
>>2.078: S< xboard
>>2.078: S< new
>>2.078: S< setlevel 5 300 0
>>2.078: S< post
>>2.078: S< hard
>>easy
>>2.078: S- Thread priority set to below normal
>>2.078: C< readyok
>>27.844: C> position startpos moves e2e4 e7e5 g1f3 g8f6 f3e5 d7d6 e5f7 e8f7 d2d4
>>g7g6 f1c4 f7g7 e1g1
>>27.844: C> go btime 300000 wtime 291000
>>27.844: C< info depth 1 score 1
>>27.844: S< force
>>27.844: S< new
>>27.844: S< post
>>27.844: S< hard
>>easy
>>27.844: S< force
>>27.844: S< setlevel 5 300 0
>>27.844: S< force
>>27.844: S< e2e4
>>27.844: S< e7e5
>>27.844: S< g1f3
>>27.844: S< g8f6
>>27.844: S< f3e5
>>27.844: S< d7d6
>>27.844: S< e5f7
>>27.844: S< e8f7
>>27.844: S< d2d4
>>27.844: S< g7g6
>>27.844: S< f1c4
>>27.844: S< f7g7
>>27.844: S< e1g1
>>27.844: S< time 30000
>>27.844: S< otim 29100
>>27.844: S< black
>>27.844: S< go
>>55.312: C> stop
>>55.312: S< ?
>>65.562: C< bestmove d6d5
>>68.125: S< quit
>>======================================================================
>>
>>I never see the move d6d5 played on Fritz 8, the last move I see is e1g1 played
>>by me.  Here we go out of book and Rebel 12 never makes a move on the screen.
>>Inth engine window, all I see is "depth =1"
>
>d6d5 are sent because a stop should be followed by a move, it is the adapter
>that send it because it doesn't manage to get a move from the engine with the
>'?' command. This 'adapter' move is a random legal move.
>
>depth 1 are sent automatic by the adapter because some gui (probably Fritz)
>needed it, else it would terminate the engine. I don't know if this is still
>true but as long as it doesn't do any harm its better to have support for more
>gui's.
>Score=1 in the same automatic sending are to stop any drawoffer if you have
>selected this in the gui and the engine are still in book (no pv). I think
>Shredder classic needed this.
>
>
>>
>>
>>That's it -
>>
>>Note - if Copy my Rebel Pre- Release engine over and rename it to
>>"Rebel12_CB.exe"  it WORKS so there is clearly something different between Rebel
>>12 and Rebel 12 pre-release.
>>
>
>This is strange, by this the only thing I could think of now late at night was
>this inittime setting.
>
>I get back If I see a light somewhere, but I'm preparing for an otb-tournament
>in Russia this weekend so my head is feed up with chess-moves right now.
>
>Odd Gunnar
>
>>Thanks for any help offered.
>>
>>Best,
>>
>>Michael

One thing before I go to bed. Have you tried to disable the gui book. What
happend then, could you try it with rebel as white and then as black.

Odd Gunnar



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