Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 12:16:35 02/08/02
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On February 08, 2002 at 12:34:17, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >On February 07, 2002 at 15:46:31, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: > >>I downloaded the description of the UCI protocol from Chessbase and made a fast >>converter to enable my engine to be used by the new Fritz interface. >>But I have a big-big problem. I don't own Fritz or Shredder so I'm not able to >>test this. > >I'll hope to be able to try it under Shredder 5, some time soon. > >>By the way I have some questions. >>1. How to resign (what should the engine send). > >I fear, this is an unsolvable problem. A fast test with the WB2UCI.exe from the Oh, the name is taken, well I must find another name then so that the confusion isn't too big. By the way do this wb2uci the same as the one I am making? And is it distributed with Fritz 7? >S5 distrubuition suggests, that it cannot handle resigning. So, it will be best >if the engine can be set to not resign. When the engine sends a move and then >resigns, WB2UCI of S5 will just ignore the resign and will carry on, as if the >engine had not resigned. If the engine only sends resign (1-0 or 0-1) without a >move, the adapter seems to do nothing, until the time runs out. I send an info string message here with the received text and will answer a stop command with an imaginary 'bestmove e2e4'. > >>2. When the user offer draw, what is sent by the GUI. > >Nothing. > >>3. What is the format of the .eng file (not the CB .dll). > >The .eng files of S5 are just test files. For WB engines started by the WB2UCI >by S5 they look like: > >[ENGINE] >Name=Yace WB >Author=DB >Filename=E:\Programme\Shredder5\wb2uci.exe > >[OPTIONS] >LoadEngine=d:\usr\dieter\schachn3\yace.exe >ShowStats=1 >SendToEngine= > >the filename would be "Yace WB.eng" in this case. The ShowStats line tells if >the engine supports the "." command during search or ponder search (and not only >during Analyze). > >The .eng files of UCI engines look like this: > >[ENGINE] >Name=Yace latest version >Author=Dieter Buerssner >Filename=d:\usr\dieter\schachn3\yace.exe > >[OPTIONS] >Show hash performance=true > >Under [Options], any options that deviate from the engine default are listed. >Again the filename is the name given to the engine (personality).eng. > Thanks for this, it was exactly what I was hoping the file was for. Odd Gunnar >Regards, >Dieter
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