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Subject: Re: Uci in Fritz 8 Gui

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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