Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 00:59:58 08/17/00
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On August 15, 2000 at 20:23:23, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >On August 15, 2000 at 05:14:26, Jason Williamson wrote: > >>Is there a way to help bringer not lose on time all the time in the Fritz 6 >>Interface? It appears the bringer loses track of time after a few moves as it >>has to replay the position. > >My serious suggestion is - complain with Chessbase. I had and I have much >problems understanding their implementation of the winboard protocol. I am >almost certain, that ChessBase implements commands, that are defined with Tim >Mann's description of the Winboard protocol, in a totally different way. Also, >I have read the technical documention of their Winbaord adapter many times. I >am almost certain, that their implementation contradicts their documentatation. >I give one small example. Tim Mann says, that after the command "new", the chess >engine should feel as black. He also says, that "time" sets the clock of the >chess engine. If Yace plays as white under the Fritz GUI, it alway gets new >first. Then it gets the time command. This now should set the time on the clock >of black. Then it gets all the moves of the current game. Then it gets "go", >which just means: search. Perhaps, you will see, that this doesn't work at all, >when the engine is white. There will be no time synchronization at all. > >I can see, that the ChessBase method (giving the whole move list before >each move) is more robust. But the way they implement it, just makes it almost >impossible for any Winboard engine to work, without any very strange >"fitz_mode"-hacks. Many statements of their documentation are just not true. > >If you don't believe, I can show specific samples of my logs. ChessBase >seems to ignore my comments ... > >Regards, >Dieter I suspect they are just waiting for you to get fed up and offer them your engine as a native engine sometime soon. :) Its annoying really that none of the major commercial engines use the winboard setup properly. JW
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