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Subject: Re: Uci in Fritz 8 Gui is shit

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 05:26:52 01/12/04

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On January 12, 2004 at 03:36:14, Matthias Gemuh wrote:

>On January 12, 2004 at 00:55:18, Paul Doire wrote:
>
>> Has everyone found using the UCI import in Fritz 8 to be much better than the
>>old winboard chessbase adapter. Is it safe to say UCI engines will run just as
>>strongly in Fritz 8 Gui as they do in say the Arena Gui....another words no
>>appreciable loss of strength.
>>
>>Is the Chessbase Gui "the place" to run matches now without the heavy prejudice
>>the old winboard adapter had towards chessbase products? Is it neutral?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Paul
>
>
>Hi Paul,
>
>you seem to have missed all the discussions about ChessBase GUIs sometimes
>allocating only 1 MB Hash for UCI engines, while native engines use the full
>Hash size defined in GUI.
>
>I have told my UCI engine that if a GUI tells it to allocate 1 MB Hash as in
>ChessBase style of cheating, then the engine should "laugh out loud"
>and use the Hash size defined in engine's ini file.
>
>UCI GUIs that don't stealthily limit Hash size to 1 MB are Arena, ChessPartner
>and maybe Shredder Classic.
>
>/Matthias.

Two questions:
Have you studied this yourself and seen the allocation command?
Is it exactly 1MB that CB allocates?
/Peter




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