Author: Hermano Ecuadoriano
Date: 11:34:37 11/15/00
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On November 15, 2000 at 04:22:32, Luca Dormio wrote: >On November 15, 2000 at 03:32:33, Francesco Di Tolla wrote: > >>On November 15, 2000 at 01:31:47, Jouni Uski wrote: >> >>>You asked: which 32 winboard engines are Windows2000 / Chessbase combatible?! >>>I think answer is all of them. >> >>I don't know about ChessBase 8, but the winboard adapter by CB staff present in >>Fritz&friends is not compatible with all of the winboard engines, but only with >>mmost of them. This is due to the fact they don't use the winboard standard to >>read the moves from the engine, but they kind of get the move from the lines the >>engine shows while thinking. > >If you log the commands passed from the winboard adapter to the engine you find >that, for every move, they use a scheme like this: > >new >force >e2e4 >e7e5 >[rest of move list] >go Is this old news? Does it cause the WB engine to clear its hash table and start over? Is this a good reason not to run zero-increment matches under this GUI? I haven't seen this mentioned lately, although I have seen a lot of zero-increment tournaments. If this is the case, and if the new CM8000 does NOT do this, it would be a huge plus for CM. > >they use this trick also to emulate pondering in engines that actually don't >support it, the CB/Fritz interface simply choose a candidate and send the same >sequence as above during opponent time, so the engine thinks that it's already >it's turn and starts the search; when the user moves the CB/Fritz interface >moves immediatly if the prediction was right... >My engine, for example, does not tollerate this behaviour very well, since it >starts to generate illegal moves near the end of a game (probably some >"result/mate" flag gets screwed up) > >Regards >Luca
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