Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 00:40:33 01/19/06
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On January 18, 2006 at 22:19:30, Jay Urbanski wrote: >On January 18, 2006 at 07:32:07, Vasik Rajlich wrote: > >>On January 17, 2006 at 21:34:23, Steve Maughan wrote: >> >>>Vasik, >>> >>>>I was thinking to have just a "spin" parameter where the tester indicates the >>>>opponent's rating. (Or rating difference ..) All engines could in principle >>>>expose such a parameter. >>> >>>Do you know that the UCI specification already has this feature? The >>>UCI_Opponent is a standard option that also send the opponents ELO. While it's >>>part of the spec I don't know of any GUI that actually sends this info - not >>>even the Shredder Classic GUI. >>> >>>Regards, >>> >>>Steve >> >>Steve, >> >>thanks for the info. In this case, if I implement this feature, it will be >>through this command. Testers may need to set it manually (if the GUI doesn't). >> >>Vas > > >As someone who uses engines mostly on ICS servers, I would love to see this >feature implemented. You could easily implement this yourself by making some small additions to PolyGlot, I think. I am fairly sure XBoard already sends the opponent's name, rating and title. >Now if there were only also a way to indicate whether >your opponent is human or a (C)omputer :) There is. Have a look at the UCI specification: * <id> = UCI_Opponent, type string With this command the GUI can send the name, title, elo and if the engine is playing a human or computer to the engine. The format of the string has to be [GM|IM|FM|WGM|WIM|none] [<elo>|none] [computer|human] <name> Examples: "setoption name UCI_Opponent value GM 2800 human Gary Kasparov" "setoption name UCI_Opponent value none none computer Shredder" Tord
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