Author: Matthias Gemuh
Date: 05:46:05 01/12/04
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On January 12, 2004 at 08:26:52, Peter Fendrich wrote: >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 Hi Peter, when GCP (DeepSjeng) mentioned this fraud, I did not believe him, till ... I looked at several log files of my UCI engine. Yes, it is always either the hash size set in GUI or exactly 1 MB. Note that this happens here on a system with 512 MB RAM and 64 MB Hash. Regards, Matthias.
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