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Subject: Re: Uci in Fritz 8 Gui

Author: Chessfun

Date: 08:53:47 01/12/04

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On January 12, 2004 at 07:05:49, Matthias Gemuh wrote:

>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".

Seems in the case of Ruffian if you set the cfg file to 64M it will use it.
This is from this PC my other PC Ruffian log I posted elsewhere.

First log is without CFG set, second with CFG set.

Logfile: Mon Jan 12 11:45:56 2004
Total hash size 4M
Open book: Ruffian.bok
Book version 0.3 created Mon Oct 20 23:11:55 2003
293509 book moves, depth=60
ruffian: [uci]
[setoption name Hash value 1]
Total hash size 1M
{setoption name NalimovPath value c:\nalimov}
[setoption name NalimovPath value c:\nalimov]
Initializing tablebases: c:\nalimov
[setoption name NalimovCache value 8]
Initializing tablebase cache: 8M
[isready]
[quit]

Logfile: Mon Jan 12 11:47:34 2004
Total hash size 64M
Open book: Ruffian.bok
Book version 0.3 created Mon Oct 20 23:11:55 2003
293509 book moves, depth=60
ruffian: [uci]
[setoption name Hash value 128]
Total hash size 128M
{setoption name NalimovPath value c:\nalimov}
[setoption name NalimovPath value c:\nalimov]
Initializing tablebases: c:\nalimov
[setoption name NalimovCache value 8]
Initializing tablebase cache: 8M
[isready]
[quit]

Sarah.



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