Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 04:01:27 03/07/02
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On March 07, 2002 at 03:36:15, Harald Faber wrote: >- Time control 40/120+60 (although I still doubt that the King uses this time >control properly) > >- Am playing on *2* PCs! > >- TheKing is running under the Fritz 7 GUI with Odd Gunnar Malin's WB2UCI >adapter (03/05/2002) using the Fritz 7 opening book. Unfortunately King lost the Hi. When you use the combination of: Time control 40/120+60/game, GUI-book and the beta-adapter from 2 March, I can ensure you that the time-management is wrong. This bug/test was reported to me after this date so it is better in the latest version. There is still some time-management to sort out that have mostly with the first move after book and when analysing in Fritz. I don’t send 'white/black' so if the engine internal has a white- black clock instead of engine- opponent clock there could be some confusion. This is on my workbench right now, e.g. first ensure that my test engine (PolarChess) does it so closely to the protocol as possible and then get the adapter to feed the necessary commands. When it comes to CM/The King so is my only test with this when I have tried to repair a reported bug to see if it is repaired. This would not say that I’m not happy with 'bug'-reports from users who use The King, I guess it is because of this use that I have received so many ‘bug’-reports, but this have mainly been with time control like game in minutes (Fritz 7 server). The King also seem to be a good implementation of the Winboard-protocol in The King so it help me to find bugs that would be common for all engines. When you 'beta-test' the adapter I would like it if you always use the latest version so you not use your time to find ‘bugs’ that both is reported and repaired. If you try to use the adapter as a finish product you have to wait until it is released or use either the adapter that is in the Shredder package or the old Winboard-adapter from Chessbase. I have not checked but am told that this CB-adapter is legally included in the 'Quark' package so you will find it there if you don’t have it. My adapter has maybe a lot of beta-version but this was because I did not have any suitable GUI to test it with in the beginning so I was depended on others to do the tests. There is also another issue when using GUI-book with amateur engines that I from start of thought would be a very seldom use of the adapter. When I use a Winboard engine I would hardly enable anything outside the engine that could reflect its strength. Wouldn’t it also be illegal use of the interface if you want to have it compete in a tournament? Later when I received my Shredder I see its match feature as a very nice way to test engines because of its ability to repeat the same opening with switched colour on every second game. So now I use this GUI for testing but of course disable all learning in the GUI. Sorry to CCC readers for this somewhat personal answer but it is obvious many people outside the 'beta-test' environment that struggle with the adapter. Odd Gunnar
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