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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