Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 03:27:18 06/04/00
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On June 04, 2000 at 02:59:52, José Carlos wrote: >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... A possibilty is for instance to count the moves which you receive from the Fritz-GUI. If move-nr is smaller than the move nr of the last search, you could do your usual reset actions. I must admit that I haven't cared about the Fritz-compatibilty of my winboard engine, because there is the native engine any way. Uli > > José C. > >>Uli >> >>> >>> José C.
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