Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 08:34:26 12/20/01
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On December 20, 2001 at 03:06:03, José Carlos wrote: >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. Great! that means that the second version improved or that I misread the specifications of the first one. Regards, Miguel
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