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Subject: Re: Sjeng UCI engine problem

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 15:08:01 06/15/02

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On June 15, 2002 at 17:33:53, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On June 15, 2002 at 17:27:55, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>I'm basing it on what happened when I saw things go wrong.
>>
>>During pondering, the UCI spec states that your program should
>>keep searching until told otherwhise. If there is a mate or
>>tablebase position, Sjeng may move prematurely, before it gets
>>an UCI command. This causes problems in Shredder.
>
>You are right - this causes problems. But, isn't it just a bug in the engine

Yes.

>BTW. In analyze mode (infinite search time) exiting the "analyze search" works
>well with Shredder 5, while, as you stated, you are not allowed to return a move
>while waiting for ponderhit or stop. But it is not too unlogical, IMHO. I guess
>giving a move to WB while pondering and not received the expected move, is also
>an error (I never tried it).

Might be worthwhile to check out.

--
GCP



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