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Subject: Re: Uci in Fritz 8 Gui

Author: Matthias Gemuh

Date: 04:05:49 01/12/04

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On January 12, 2004 at 04:56:13, Vasik Rajlich wrote:

>On January 12, 2004 at 00:55:18, Paul Doire wrote:
>
>> Has everyone found using the UCI import in Fritz 8 to be much better than the
>>old winboard chessbase adapter. Is it safe to say UCI engines will run just as
>>strongly in Fritz 8 Gui as they do in say the Arena Gui....another words no
>>appreciable loss of strength.
>>
>>Is the Chessbase Gui "the place" to run matches now without the heavy prejudice
>>the old winboard adapter had towards chessbase products? Is it neutral?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Paul
>
>I do all of my testing in the Chessbase GUI via UCI and haven't run into any
>problems. The one criticism I have is that there is no way to run good
>handicapped matches. The only thing you can do is give Shredder "9 ply" and your
>engine "10" but it's a bit unrealistic, sometimes the time advantage is 5:1,
>sometimes 2:1.
>
>The main advantages of ChessBase vs Arena are better opening books and most
>importantly you immediately have the games in ChessBase format for inspection
>and analysis, nothing compares to ChessBase in this area IMO.
>
>Vas



Can you intercept and see the UCI commands that ChessBase sends to engines ?
If you are an engine author, you can log all the communication, of course.
In the command "setoption name Hash value X", ChessBase randomly sets X=1,
instead of X="Hash size in MB".















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