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Subject: Re: epd2wb question

Author: Andrew Dados

Date: 22:39:24 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.
>
>How hard is it to add a function, associated with a menu item, to run a standard
>epd test suite?
>
>Will

Good thing is: winboard can handle sending positions in FEN format now.

So maybe not that hard. However plenty of older engines don't support that
winboard command, and setting a position in gnu-compatibility mode was too
cumbersome to implement for most.

-Andrew-



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