Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 01:16:17 10/01/03
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On September 30, 2003 at 13:29:46, George Sobala wrote: >Try seeing if the rebel-uci interface works by testing it "by hand" rather than >through ChessBase. > >How to do it: > >Open up the rebel12 folder > >Double-click on rebeluci.exe > >... You will see a command window appear with "200" written in it > >Now type the following commands in sequence: > >uci >position startpos moves h2h3 f7f6 h1h2 e8f7 >isready >go infinite >stop > Switch the position and isready here to be sure. Eg. uci isready position startpos moves h2h3 f7f6 h1h2 e8f7 go infinite stop The hole startup process happend on the isready. Eg. start of engine, engine initialize tablebases etc. >"uci" initialises the uci interface, and you should see a few lines in reply, >ending in "uciok". The "position" line sets an out-of-book position from the >starting position. You should see no reply to this command. "isready" waits for >Rebel12 to be ready - wait for "readyok" in reply. "go infinite" starts analysis >which you should see whizz up the screen. "stop" stops the analysis and leads to >a "bestmove" reply. > >Now when I try this on a P4-1800 on Windows-XP it works, I get the following: > >200uci >id name Rebel 12 >id author Ed Schroeder >option name AntiGM type spin default 0 min 0 max 3 >option name Playingstyle type spin default 2 min 0 max 4 >option name Strength type spin default 2 min 0 max 2 >option name Personality type combo default Rebel var Rebel var Rebel1 var Rebel2 > var Rebel3 var Rebel4 >option name Ponder type check default true >option name Logfile type check default false >uciok >position startpos moves h2h3 f7f6 h1h2 e8f7 >isready >readyok >go infinite >info depth 1 score 1 >info depth 1 score cp 22 time 0 nodes 4 nps 4000 pv g1f3 >info depth 1 score cp 33 time 0 nodes 6 nps 6000 pv b1c3 >info depth 1 score cp 43 time 0 nodes 8 nps 8000 pv d2d4 >info depth 1 score cp 45 time 0 nodes 10 nps 10000 pv e2e4 >info depth 2 currmovenumber 1 currmove e2e4 >info depth 2 score cp 33 time 0 nodes 147 nps 147000 pv e2e4 b8c6 d1h5 g7g6 >info depth 2 currmovenumber 2 currmove d2d4 >info depth 2 currmovenumber 3 currmove b1c3 >[snipped for brevity] >info depth 10 currmovenumber 17 currmove h3h4 >info depth 10 currmovenumber 18 currmove g2g4 >info depth 10 currmovenumber 19 currmove c2c3 >info depth 11 currmovenumber 1 currmove e2e4 >stop >bestmove e2e4 ponder e7e6 > >Great! It works! But when I try on a Athlon-1700+ on Windows-2000-Pro, this >happens: > >200uci >id name Rebel 12 >id author Ed Schroeder >option name AntiGM type spin default 0 min 0 max 3 >option name Playingstyle type spin default 2 min 0 max 4 >option name Strength type spin default 2 min 0 max 2 >option name Personality type combo default Rebel var Rebel var Rebel1 var Rebel2 > var Rebel3 var Rebel4 >option name Ponder type check default true >option name Logfile type check default false >uciok >position startpos moves h2h3 f7f6 h1h2 e8f7 >isready >readyok >go infinite >info depth 1 score 1 > >... and then nothing. Rebel12 works fine under ChessPartner on both machines. Is >this an Athlon problem, or a Windows-2000 problem perhaps? For the adapter I have used processor type: blend (/GB) defaults to pentium and optimizing for speed (/O2). I put up a version without any optimizing at: http://home.online.no/~malin/sjakk/download/wb2uci_spes_build.zip If you want to check if there could be any catch with the adapter. Odd Gunnar
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