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Subject: Re: Young Talents engines for CB as opposed to winboard + adapter?

Author: José Carlos

Date: 23:59:52 06/03/00

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On June 03, 2000 at 17:29:10, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>On June 03, 2000 at 17:15:14, José Carlos wrote:
>
>>On June 03, 2000 at 16:17:09, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>>
>>>On June 03, 2000 at 13:41:02, John Hartmann wrote:
>>>
>>>>Can anyone outline the difference in strength, etc., between
>>>>using a Winboard engine plus the Chessbase adapter as opposed
>>>>to the "native" variants offered in the Young Talents cd?
>>>>
>>>>Is there a real/substantial difference?
>>>>
>>>>In other words -- is it really worth buying?!
>>>>
>>>>John Hartmann
>>>
>>>With Patzer and Ikarus, there are 2 young talents, which are not available as
>>>free winboard engines.
>>>
>>>Uli
>>
>>  Maybe my winboard adapter is corrupted or something, but it sends the command
>>"new" to my program after each move, sending then all the game moves againg
>>(preceeded by "force") and, that way, the program clears the hash tables after
>>every move. This is very bad for my program.
>>  Am I missing something?
>
>No, this is the usual, regular behavior of the adapter.
>You get in addition the command "Fritz" (if i remember correctly), in order to
>learn that you are in a fritz environment. So you can do something special when
>receiving "new".

  Yes, that's what I thougt to do, but what happens when the command "new"
really means that the user wants to start a new game? Then, the hash table is
not cleared and the opening book is not loaded...

  José C.

>Uli
>
>>
>>  José C.



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