Author: Peter Kappler
Date: 22:34:17 12/19/01
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On December 20, 2001 at 00:42:59, Will Singleton wrote: >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. > I'm not a winboard expert, but I think the protocol does include commands for analyzing epd files, or at least epd positions. However, there are probably many "winboard-compatible" engines that don't support this feature. If you just want to run test suites, it's probably overkill to use Winboard. Just take a few minutes to read the engine docs, as Andrew suggested. You'll also find it helpful to familiarize yourself with some basics of the DOS shell, like output redirection, and writing simple batch files. Then again, if you're unwilling to read engine docs, I suspect you'll really be unhappy about learning DOS. ;) >How hard is it to add a function, associated with a menu item, to run a >standard epd test suite? > >Will Suggest it to Tim Mann, but be polite and remember that all this stuff is free. :) -Peter
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