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Subject: Re: Fast UCI support or Here we go again :)

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 18:53:56 02/13/02

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On February 13, 2002 at 10:00:44, David Dahlem wrote:

>On February 07, 2002 at 15:46:31, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote:
>
>>Hi.
>>
>>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.
>>Is the any merciful soul outhere who could help me with some log-files and
>>pictures of the personality/proberty dialogbox for Fritz7.
>>
>>The tool act as the InBetween tool so it could be used by other who not have
>>time to make their engine UCI-compatible.
>>
>>Testers could download the utility here:
>>http://home.online.no/~malin/sjakk/download/Wb2Uci.zip (50kb)
>>
>>By the way I have some questions.
>>1. How to resign (what should the engine send).
>>2. When the user offer draw, what is sent by the GUI.
>>3. What is the format of the .eng file (not the CB .dll).
>>
>>Odd Gunnar
>
>Could this wb2uci be used to adapt winboard engines to uci engines in the Arena
>gui? If so, what is the proper setup procedure?
>
>Thanks
>Dave

Ok, I answered your mail about this but I quess you wrote here first.

For others here is my answer
**
I haven't seen Arena but it is suposed to have Winboard support. If this support
is normal like Winboard, Chessmaster, CA etc. I see no cause to try to use it as
uci-engine. There is no gain in it.
If it's support isn't in the spirit of Winboard I would think it was better to
try to point out this since the program is in test stage.
The wb2uci-adapter isn't any miracle, it only try to send to winboard engine
what it is expected to get and not as the earlier wb-adapters from CB that try
to control the engine.
**

I will add that I most probably will add some feature so you could manipulate
the engine from inside Fritz/Shredder/Arena etc. because my own engine is full
of settable varables.
Then it probably would be some interest to use it where the WB-support is good
too but only for human play against the engine.

Odd Gunnar



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