Author: martin fierz
Date: 06:24:26 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 i have seen this too - you get a request to set the hash size to 1MB. my engine runs fine under arena and winboard, but the fritz GUI won't run it. i guess it's because i haven't implemented hash size change by the GUI yet and always use about 32MB default. and then the fritz GUI simply decides to ignore my engine since it refuses to run in cripplede mode :-) of course it's also possible that i have some other bug in my UCI protocol that arena accepts but the fritz GUI does not. cheers martin
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