Author: Thomas Mayer
Date: 06:37:31 05/24/05
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Hi Michael, > 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 ? well, maybe the uci adapter was part of Fafis in the Fafis X versions -> as a stand alone program it is clear that the adapter takes more bytes on the harddisk then when implemented. Maybe he was not satisfied with it or it did not work so fine, don't know. >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. I would not call this growing -> as I have explained, a single adapter can be way bigger then just the engine with implemented adapter. Also size differents can be a consequence of choosing different compiler or different compiler settings. E.g. compare the different Crafty executeables around, they are very different in their size. > 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 ? hm, did you try whether it is possible in UCI mode ? I can also try if I get it to work with epd2wb. The only strange thing I see currently about Fafis is that it's .exe is crypted/compress... I do not really understand why anyone is doing that ?! Greets, Thomas
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