Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 19:16:32 09/10/03
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On September 10, 2003 at 20:30:33, Geoff Lane wrote: >On September 10, 2003 at 20:14:02, Bob Durrett wrote: > >>On September 10, 2003 at 17:57:57, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >> >>>On September 10, 2003 at 17:39:36, Bob Durrett wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>I would like to use Chessmaster 9000 as an analysis engine running under >>>>Chessbase 8. Is "UCI" the answer? If not, why not? >>>> >>>>Bob D. >>> >>> Chessmaster 9000 does not run under ChessBase 8. >>> Kurt >> >>Can Chessmaster 9000 be used as a UCI engine? Or, is Chessmaster 9000 >>incompatible with UCI? Are Chessmaster 9000 and UCI incompatible? >> >>Maybe UCI isn't all that great after all? >> >>The essence of my question is whether or not it's possible to somehow trick the >>Chessmaster 9000 programmers [who evidently hate Chessbase] so that it would >>work in spite of their best efforts? What prevents that? >> >>I don't like catagorical answers. I want the SOLUTION! > >The King engine from Chessmaster 9000 will run as a UCI engine with the WB2UCI >converter. However, although I don't have Chessbase8, I have a feeling that it >doesn't support UCI engines. If you have one of the later versions of the >Fritz/Junior/Shredder/Hiarcs GUI's, which support UCI, then it can be done. > >Here is a link that explains how to do it: > >http://www.aarontay.per.sg/Winboard/Winboard4.html#[D.3.5] I looked at that webpage. It is most interesting. They say Chessmaster 9000's engine, "The King," is a Winboard engine. [I'm not sure what it is about an engine that would make it "a Winboard engine."] They then talk about a converter to make Winboard engines become UCI engines. Sounds plausible but awkward. Presumably, the converted King would then run as a UCI engine and could hence be accommodated by Chessbase and the Fritz GUI. Chessbase 8 and the Fritz GUI accommodate UCI engines, as far as I can tell. Shredder 7.0.4 seems to be an example. If you go to www.chessbase.com and look at their download for Shredder 7, you get a downloadable file which, after unzipping, says "Installing Shredder 7.04 UCI." Also, in the Fritz GUI, there is a "Setup UCI Engine" window. This is why I say that it appears that Chessbase can now accommodate UCI engines. The Chessbase guys have "moved up in the World." Maybe soon they will be able to accommodate "Winboard engines" too??? : ) I would love to see a definition of "a Winboard engine," assuming there is such a thing, and to learn what distinguishes "Winboard engines" from other engines. For example, is Crafty a Winboard engine? Is Crafty also a UCI engine? Is Crafty an "everything for everybody" engine? [Humor intended. : )] I know Crafty runs under Chessbase 8, because I used it for that a couple of days ago, but suspect that it was not running as a UCI engine. Bob D. > >> >>No offense intended. >> >>Bob D.
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