Author: Michael Diosi
Date: 06:05:17 05/24/05
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On May 24, 2005 at 05:22:48, Thomas Mayer wrote: >Hi Christopher, > >> It also does not support analyse mode anymore either which I seem to >> remember it also did in it's test phase. Why? Maybe that is a question for >> Rafael although. > >hm... the analyse mode -> did you test that with Fafis loaded as UCI-engine ? If >that is the case then the answer is easy: UCI is more or less stateless, there >does not exist anything like an analyse mode. Instead the engine is simply told >to think 'infinite' about the position. Every UCI engine should be capable of >analysis. Only problem is, when they do not support 'position fen <fen>' and the >'stop' command. Then you can not really use them for analysis. >Example: Eden 0.0.6 > >Greets, Thomas Hello Thomas, Well it says it has an UCI adapter and I couldn't make it work in Arena. But it seems that it did use a UCI mode, FEN and also analysis mode in previous beta versions as people say. Why on earth would someone disable such important features ? I asked someone about the size of the old beta and compare it with the size of the new version: Fafis 0.3X was : 204,800 bytes Fafis 2.0 with virus:212,992 bytes Fafis 2.1 without virus: 200,704 bytes Fafis 2.1 with UCI: 241,664 bytes so he took something out and the engine is still growing in size, just an observation. A lot of engines do not understand legal positions, some accept illegal positions as being legal. Testing engines without FEN/analyse abilities is more or less impossible... Why doesn't he want us to test it ? Best, Michael
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