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Subject: Re: Uci in Fritz 8 Gui is shit

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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