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Subject: Re: UCI adapters

Author: Fabien Letouzey

Date: 06:33:08 03/01/04

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>>At the moment the adapter is far from complete but good enough for my needs.
>>Would anybody need more general version?

>Would be appreciated by me and those who like to run UCI-only engines in
>Winboard.

Sorry at the moment my adaptor is for Unix.
I indeed intend to port my engine to Windows, but there is no point in porting
the adaptor if existing ones are good enough.

With the help of a Windows programmer, it shouldn't be too hard to adapt it
though (only the I/O code is OS specific).
The problem is configuration, I don't intend to provide a GUI but only command
line parameters.

>The existing has at least one bug: in a game with classical time control (40
>moves in one hour for example) and if in addition bookthinker is in use the UCI
>engine gets in time trouble because the moves of bookthinker are not counted and
>the UCI engine moves to fast. After the first time control it thinks it has much
>more time and is playing much to slow.

Now that sounds bad; the sort of thing I was expecting unfortunately.
Can you explain how bookthinker (a separate book engine I guess) is interfaced
with the rest of the system?
Is it connected to Winboard, or (more likely) UCI2WB?

>
>Regards
>
>Volker

Thanks,

Learning more about how it works "out there" (on Windows) will hopefully help me
making the right choices :)

Fabien.




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