Author: José Carlos
Date: 23:47:22 12/19/01
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On December 20, 2001 at 01:39:24, Andrew Dados wrote: >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- The subject of this thread includes "epd2wb", so I guess Will is trying to use it with winboard engines. It is a tool written by Bruce that reads an epd file, sends each position to the engine, waits for its output and counts success and failures, so actually you don't need to read each program doc, not even to implement epd processing in your engine. I use it with Averno (which supports wb proto 2) and it works almost perfectly. I've noticed the problem Will reports here, this is, not showing the bm in some positions. When I find that problem, I simply rewrite the fen string again in a new line, and it usually works. José C.
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