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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