Author: Vasik Rajlich
Date: 01:42:18 01/13/04
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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". Thanks for the warning. I haven't seen it, but I don't run tournaments. Note that Shredder also runs in UCI so I'm quite sure this is only a bug. Vas
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