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Subject: Re: Another GUI SCANDAL?

Author: Hermano Ecuadoriano

Date: 11:12:31 01/07/01

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On January 07, 2001 at 13:51:14, Thomas Mayer wrote:

>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

IF there were a problem, one would think that the programmers and testers
would be aware of it...



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