Author: Ingo Bauer
Date: 10:51:40 03/03/04
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On March 03, 2004 at 08:06:48, William Penn wrote: >For some reason I've lost confidence in the CB GUI with Shredder8.eng, and am >starting to use the classic Shredder 6 GUI with the Shredder 8 UCI engine. >That's the way SSDF does it, and I imagine they know best. I am not sure what they will do with S8 as their is no S8-Classic book yet. >I don't know yet if >this will help with the nonsensical PV's which Shredder 8 burps out frequently. Just to clarifie this: This is not a bug. It is the method how Shredder is collecting the PV. At least you can be sure that the first move is the one Shredder really prefers. >So far I haven't seen any bad PV's with the classic GUI, but I'm still a >beginner. Also my impression is that big hash size may be handled better, I doubt that there is a difference. >and >the engine may run faster with the classic GUI, but haven't tried to prove it >(yet). Have not tried it with S8 but the S7 UCI in the Classic GUI was about 3 to 5 % faster than the CB-native on the same comp. Dont try to calculate the ELO difference :-) . But 5% is the difference between the two top processors either of AMD or Intel. So its worth about 150€ :-) >Does it have a variation board, or some way to play over a variation while the >engine is running in analysis mode? F11. You can just play (even automatic) the current PV but no own variant. >Does it have a "move now" command, so that the best move found so far is >executed from analysis mode (rather than having to drag & drop the piece on the >chessboard)? No afaik. If you are in analysis mode you do an analysis. So, no play possible. Interrupt is only interrupting the analysis. It is not making a move. I think you have to drag and drop by yourself. >Lastly, are there any better GUI's than this one for running the Shredder 8 UCI >engine? I hear about Arena but haven't taken the plunge. Is it a significant >improvement? If you excactly specify all parameters when a GUI is better you might get an answer, this is a very personal decission. From my personal POV I prefer the Classic over all others, because of its a very ergonomic and intuitiv handling (Right click the windows and you will find allmost everything that is possible in the classic) Bye Ingo
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