Author: Jouni Uski
Date: 01:08:09 04/15/04
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On April 15, 2004 at 03:36:07, Volker Pittlik wrote: >On April 15, 2004 at 01:10:34, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>Why not simply play UCI engines under UCI GUI and Winboard engines under >>Winboard? > >Because sometimes it is interesting to compare Winboard only and UCI only >engines. > >> These kind of adapters are unnecessary! > >This is true. It applies for all free software including Winboard and Arena. > >> Need both: use ARENA!! > >It can be done this way. Without any doubt Arena is a very good software >offering some features Winboard is missing. On the other hand it depends of what >someone is intending to do what GUI to choose. > >Let me give an example: In my last test I played several thousands of bullet >games. Because Shredder was among the competitors I had to choose between Arena >and Winboard plus a tournament manager plus Bookthinker and an UCI2WB adapter. > >The tournament needed some weeks of CPU time and I before I start I tested both >setups. It turned out the setup with Winboard was _much_ faster because Arena >needs a lot more time when starting a new game. Yes here You are correct: I don't understand why Arena is so slow in starting engines. Up to 5 seconds with fast PC. And 30 seconds to start engine match! With 2,4 Ghz PC... Jouni
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