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Subject: Re: ICC with arena and winboard

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 14:14:32 10/27/03

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On October 27, 2003 at 16:48:37, martin fierz wrote:

>i have been playing on ICC a bit with my engine, but i have had some problems:
>at first, i used arena, and there sometimes the following happens: when my
>engine is playing black, arena says "illegal move" on the second move of my
>engine, although the move was perfectly legal. it then goes on to lose on time
>of course. has anybody else seen this kind of problem with arena+ICC?

I had two UCI problems with Arena. First, if a UCI engine was pondering and the
opponent never moved (resigned, lost on time, etc.), the engine would continue
pondering and lose the next game on time. Second, Ruffian UCI would only run at
about 70% cpu usage in 1/0 games, while the winboard version of Ruffian had no
such problems.

I've never had these kinds of problems with the winboard protocol (in either
Winboard or Arena).


>next, i added winboard support to my engine and now i'm playing without problems
>under winboard. one annoying thing is that my engine gets kicked out of ICC
>after 60 minutes of idleness, which happens rather frequently. has anybody
>compiled himself a version of winboard which sends an arbitrary command to ICC
>(like "finger") every 50 minutes or so? or is there another solution to this?

Try the tellics command in the winboard protocol to see if you can let the
engine handle this.



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