Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:19:26 04/25/04
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On April 25, 2004 at 16:44:08, Mike Byrne wrote: >On April 25, 2004 at 15:29:27, James T. Walker wrote: > >>On April 25, 2004 at 15:25:24, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >> >>>On April 25, 2004 at 14:57:40, Lex Loep wrote: >>> >>>>the CP GUI expects thinking output from the engine in a certain format. It uses >>>>this to retreive the score from the PV. In some instances the engines either >>>>does not send a PV or it sends a PV in which CP cannot recognise the score. In >>>>these case its scored as 0. >>> >>>You know better than me, that the format of the actual PV is practically >>>undefined in the WB/XB protocol. If CP is dependent on some specific features in >>>the format of the PV, one could consider this as a bug of CP. At least, it would >>>be good, if you documented which PV formats are recognized. But the format for >>>the score is rather well defined in the protocol (excluding mate scores, which >>>of course might be a problem, and should be fixed in the protocol). When an >>>engine sends strange scores (or other things defined in the thinking output in >>>the protocol before the actual PV), the engine should be blamed. >>> >>>Regards, >>>Dieter >> >>I get similar results in Arena. > >When you say similiar results - do you mean the exact same condition as in the >CP condition or just other incorrectly reported results. I know there are some >bugs with arena that do not like the "I claim a draw" annoucements that are now >in Crafty and will misrport drawn games as losses for Crafty. I set up a >special parameter in Crafty SE to address that issue and the command is "arena >on" which fixes that nuance and the search time per move issue as well. > >It's too hard for me to keep with every GUI and the little differences bewteen >them so I recommend using either Arena (be sure to have "arena on" in the >crafty.rc file) or Winboard. I have totally given up on Chessbase with their >GUI sending a "new" command every single move. That is simply too disruptive >to Crafty SE using the wb2uci.exe adapter. > >Michael What is the "bug" about claiming a draw. This was discussed at length here and Crafty does it according to the FIDE rules now. Does Arena not like that???
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