Author: José Carlos
Date: 00:06:03 12/20/01
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On December 20, 2001 at 02:57:23, Miguel A. Ballicora 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 > >You forget that WB is a interface that supports 110+ engines where one of the >most important things is compatibility. A chess engine interface is not suppose >to do all the functions that you can possibly imagine, it is to do the ones that >were incorporated because of the highest priority. In this context, a test suite >give some headaches to be performed succesfully on all +110 engines and it >certainly has one of the lowest priorities. Anyway, some effort has been done >regarding this: >epd2wb does it and if you check George Lyapko's web site does a darned good job. >AFAIK, Epd2wb inherits some code from winboard and the whole protocol >version 2 and 1. Since all this is GPL software you can consider epd2wb >part of the same "package". The only thing that epd2wb doesn't do is to >show the board. Is that really critical in a test suite? > >It looks like you had some problem running epd2wb + sjeng + arasan.testsuite >It is possible that the problem is in the epd file that is not compliant. >Try to run another test suite. Take into account that the epdsuite should >have the bm in SAN if the engine uses SAN or e2e4 notation if it is what the >engine uses. Hi Miguel, I think you're wrong here. Averno doesn't support SAN (except for book creation) and it runs fine with epd2wb with bm's in SAN, so I think it translates the moves. One thing I forgot in my other post: if you write sings _before_ the move (IE ++e4e5, which I had in Averno) epd2wb doesn't match it with the bm move. So I changed ++e4e5 for e4e5! and epd2wb understands that. José C. >More that 50 engines proved to be succesful with epd2wb. > >Regards, >Miguel
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