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Subject: Re: epd2wb question

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 09:18:14 12/20/01

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On December 20, 2001 at 08:03:15, Peter Fendrich 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
>
>Hi Will,
>If I recall right, EPD2WB picks the move from the pv-lines given and not from
>the move given by the program (at least the version I used).
>In some situations Terra didn't show any line and just sent it's move.
>Then EPD2WB couldn't see Terra's move and flagged it as wrong.
>Maybe the same problem?
>I don't remember how I solved it but the EPD2WB gave some possible ways of
>doing things and it was solved.
>
>Peter


Thx, Peter.  I think the problem I'm seeing is different.  The fen is displayed,
along with another line showing BM whatever.  But, in about half the cases, the
BM line is missing.  I see the pv display, and even though they are correct,
there's no BM for them to match, so it reports a failure.

Will



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