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Subject: Re: Engine versus Interface claiming the draw...

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 14:03:26 11/30/03

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On November 30, 2003 at 16:28:35, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>
>On November 30, 2003 at 16:16:05, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>>>Did Jonny play moves from the gui when it was in book?
>>
>>Necessarily: Jonny's GUI had been the Fritz-Chessbase GUI and this one doesn't
>>call the engine as long as the GUI is in book. The engine will be called for the
>>1st time after the GUI has left "its" book. Somehow, it's a mess.
>
>Not necessarialy. An UCI engine can work under the Fritz-GUI and use its own
>book. It can tell the fact, that it wants to use the own book by the
>UCI-protocol. I don't know, if this was the case for Jonny - I just wanted to
>answer in a more general context. I guess, even for a "native" CB engine this
>would be possible. Select an empty book in the GUI, and have your own engine
>book code. But you should know this better than me ...

I understand. I had been thinking of "CB natives".
This way, you could also make a trick with TBs: don't let the GUI know the path
to the TBs but implement it into engine only.

Ain't that peculiar ? Use a GUI and then play tricks in order to partially not
to use it. -:)

Uli

>
>Regards,
>Dieter



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