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Subject: Re: Another GUI SCANDAL?

Author: Thomas Mayer

Date: 10:51:14 01/07/01

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Hi Hermano,

On January 06, 2001 at 21:15:07, Hermano Ecuadoriano wrote:

>Does Shredder's GUI force the non-native engines (like Gandalf)
>to clear their hashtables between moves?
I have tested together with a beta of mine a little bit around with Shredder 5:
The GUI has the same brain damage then Chessbase... Without special adjustment
to the GUI, no engine works properly, and it is more complicated then within
Chessbase because Chessbase sends a "fritz"-command to the engine so that the
engine knows it is working under Chessbase GUI... (If it reacts on the
"fritz"-statement anyway)... Shredder 5 does not send anything... But some
things are also better: the way Shredder 5 sends the time control is better
because it is send AFTER the move list, what will help most engines...
In my engine Quark, I have a special Shredder5 statement in the ini-file where
you can tell the engine manually that it is working under Shredder5 or not, so
that it could play with nearly full strength under Shredder5... (Anyway, might
be not so interesting for you, Quark is one of the lower bunch engines but one
of the only with special adjustments to shredder 5 ... thanks to my
beta-testers, I myself have not shredder 5 at the moment and it is really hard
work to email around versions... I wonder if they will once release kind of a
demo-version, because it will be much easier to implement all those features
according to shredder if you can test with the gui yourself...)

Greets, Thomas



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