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Subject: Re: Problems to run Yace Paderborn under Fritz 7 GUI

Author: Brian Kostick

Date: 13:10:31 03/02/03

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On March 02, 2003 at 15:29:57, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On March 01, 2003 at 17:38:13, Brian Kostick wrote:
>>Hello. In addition to what Peter has written. It is noted that yace.ini should
>>be removed to install as UCI engine. I have not checked to see if it is the
>>presence of yace.ini itself or if a particular entry within.
>
>The typical problem of having a yace.ini, when Yace is installed as an UCI
>engine under commercial GUIs will be a message like "This is not an UCI engine".
>This problem is caused by a timeout in the GUI. You may also call it a bug of
>Yace, a misfeature, or whatever. I decided, that Yace should per default work
>rather well in text mode, in Winboard/Xboard mode, and in UCI mode. As a
>consequence, Yace processes yace.ini, before it knows, that it really will work
>in UCI mode. Some things, that can be setup in yace.ini (for example the path to
>Nalimov TBs) will need some time to initialize. All the interesting things can
>be setup with engine parameters in the UCI capable GUIs anyway, so the best
>solution will be to delete yace.ini. The path to the bitbases is unfortunatley
>an exception (because of bugs in the CB interface). So, if you want to use
>bitbases with (at least some) versions of the Fritz/CB GUI, use a minimal
>yace.ini, as Peter explained.
>
>There seem to be other problems with some versions of the CB-GUI and some
>versions of uci.dll. I have no good solution, sorry. One related hint can be
>found at the end of readme.txt in yace_pb.zip.
>
>Regards,
>Dieter


Thank you for use of your engine Dieter. I understand now my mistake was 'tbldir
e:\egtb' in yace.ini. I changed the path and it installs as UCI engine in Fritz
8 (Help/About date of 030221) perfectly, even with yace.ini present. Everything
else was as extracted from Yace_Pb.zip.

Thanks,
Brian



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