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Subject: Re: Winboard and hash settings under CB

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 13:05:30 10/19/01

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On October 19, 2001 at 13:31:43, José Carlos wrote:

>On October 19, 2001 at 12:54:20, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
>
>>I just started wondering how i should set hash for winboard engines when running
>>them under CB gui, i mean, when i setup the winboard engines i would like to run
>>under CB, i set the hash in the respective configuration files that comes with
>>winboard engines and then i also set the corresponding hash in CB, ie. 64 MB in
>>the engines configuration file and 64 MB in the CB gui, but is this the right
>>way to do it, should i set the hash in CB at 0 for winboard engines? any help
>>would be appreciated.
>>
>>Regards
>>Jonas
>
>  I strongly recommend not to run winboard engines under CB unless you're gonna
>ignore the results and just want to play with the programs under a different
>interface just for fun. Nothing about strength can be concluded from running wb
>engines under a GUI which communication protocol is gonna hurt them that much.
>
>  José C.

Thx for the reply!
Is the protocol really that bad? I knew it was not ideal, but not that it was
that bad.

Regards
Jonas





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