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Subject: Re: epd2wb question

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 21:42:59 12/19/01

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On December 19, 2001 at 23:43:59, Andrew Dados wrote:

>On December 19, 2001 at 23:32:04, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>>"C:\chess\EPD2WB02\EPD2WB.EXE"
>>"c:\chess\sjeng12l\sjeng12.exe" "c:\chess\arasan.epd" 5
>>
>>I put that command into a windows shortcut.  I wanted to get sjeng to run the
>>arasan epd testsuite at 5 seconds.  I notice that it runs, but about half of the
>>positions do not show a BM as they scroll along, so that even if the engine gets
>>the right move, it's reported as a failure.
>>
>>And, btw, how the hell do you get this output sent to a file?  Why is this epd
>>stuff so hard in winboard?  How do people output the results of a winboard
>>engine analysis?  What the heck is Tim Mann thinking? :)
>>
>>Will
>
>Then again.. winboard has little to do with it. Run each engine by itself and
>find out what type of command(s) it faciliates to analyze /process epd files.
>
>
>To send output to a file just add '>myfile.txt' at the end of command string.

Really.  I thought Winboard was a chess engine interface.  No?  Aren't
interfaces supposed to handle the interaction between the user and the engine?
What, I have to actually read each engine's doc to find out how to run an epd
test?  Come on.

How hard is it to add a function, associated with a menu item, to run a standard
epd test suite?

Will



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